The brain uses minimum effort to look for key information in text

(University of Helsinki) The human brain avoids taking unnecessary effort. When a person is reading, she strives to gain as much information as possible by dedicating as little of her cognitive capacity as possible to the processing. This is a finding presented in an article by specialists in computer science and psychology at the University of Helsinki, published in Scientific Reports.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news