Tham khảo tài liệu 'scientific writing - a reader and writer's guide - j lebrun (world 2007) episode 6', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 9 Control Reading Energy Consumption Réponse hémodynamique The article by Peter Hagoort that Michael had given me to read was truly fascinating. What happens in our brain when during reading it encounters strange things such as the car stopped at the casserole traffic light Something similar happened to me while reading the word hemodynamic in the article. Google took me to the website wiki Réponse_hémodynamique and then things became very interesting. I discovered that when reading becomes difficult the body sends a little more blood . glucose and oxygen to the brain. It does not take blood from one part of the brain to send it to another part so as to keep energy consumption constant it simply increases the flow rate. Following the trail like a bloodhound I discovered a French article written by André Syrota director of the life science division at the Atomic Energy Commission indicating that our brain s additional Continued 88 Control Reading Energy Consumption 89 Continued work could consume the equivalent of 147 joules per minute of thought How tired will your readers be at the end of their reading journey How well did you manage their time and energy As Gopenb points out reading consumes energy. Reading scientific articles consumes A LOT MORE ENERGY. Therefore how do you reduce the reading energy bill and how will you give your reader the assurance that plenty of energy-refuelling stations will be available along the long and winding road of your text The Energy Bill Let Et be the total energy required by the brain to process one sentence. Et is the sum of two elements the syntactic energy Esyn spent on analysing sentence structure and the semantic energy Esem spent on connecting the sentence to the others that came before it and on making sense of the sentence based on the meaning of its words. Et Esyn Esem. Et is quasi-finite and is allocated by the brain to the reading task. Similar to our lungs which give us the oxygen we need one .
