2004): 850-52.
[105]
Maya Pines, “Sensing Change in the Environment,” in Seeing,
Hearing, and Smelling in the World: A Report from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, February 1995,
.
[106]
The brain’s maintenance of top-down control over attention seems
to require the synchronized firing of neurons in the prefrontal cortex. “It
takes a lot of your prefrontal brain power to force yourself not to process a
strong [distracting] input,” says MIT neuroscientist Robert Desimone. See
John Tierney, “Ear Plugs to Lasers: The Science of Concentration,” New
York Times, May 5, 2009.
[107]
Vaughan Bell, “The Myth of the Concentration Oasis,” Mind Hacks
blog,
February
11,
2009,
www.mindhacks.corn/blog/2009/02/the_myth_of_the_conc.html
.
[108]
Quoted in Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (New York:
Viking, 1996), 49. Early Christians practiced a religious form of Bible
reading called lectio divina, or holy reading. Deeply meditative reading was
seen as a way to approach the divine.
[109]
See Saenger, Space between Words, 249-50.
[110]
Ibid., 258. Walter J. Ong notes that editorial intensity increased
further as the publishing business grew more sophisticated: “Print involves
many persons besides the author in the production of a work-publishers,
literary agents, publishers’ readers, copy editors and others. Before as well
as after scrutiny by such persons, writing for print often calls for painstaking
revisions by the author of an order of magnitude virtually unknown in a
manuscript culture.” Ong, Orality and Literacy (New York: Routledge,
2002), 122.
[111]
Saenger, Space between Words, 259-60.
