What happens in your head when you read?
What happens in your head when you read?
Letters become words, become images - what happens in your head when you read?
Prof. Dr Iris Winkler
Institute for German Studies
Moderation: NDR 1 Niedersachsen
Camera child: Ida, 9 years old
Gong child: Julian, 10 years old
You started learning to read in first grade at the latest. It was very difficult at first, because at first there were only unfamiliar characters on the paper. Only after some practice did reading awaken thoughts and images in your head. Some of you then immerse yourselves in another world while reading.
How is it that sequences of letters make sense to us? Is everything we understand while reading really in the text? Why does everyone have their own images in their head when they read? Why is reading difficult for us? These are some of the questions to which you will get answers in this lecture.