Benjamin Bergen Ph.D.

About

Benjamin Bergen, Ph.D., is a professor of Cognitive Science and director of the Language and Cognition Lab at the University of California, San Diego. His research and teaching focus on how people produce, understand, and learn language. He is the author of Louder than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning (2012).

Recent Posts

Reading Fast and Slow

A new generation of speed-reading apps have appeared over the past year, boldly advertizing that they can double, triple, even quadruple your reading pace. They claim to use scientific principles that allow you to read not just faster but while expending less effort and without compromising comprehension. And for only a few bucks! Sound too good to be true? It is.