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I suspect the research is flawed.
They've bombarded psychology students with economics. Given my overall experiences with human scientists, I'd be hard pressed to exclude technophobia as a serious source of bias. Most students of those sciences I've met were of the "print your email, underline important parts, scribble on the margin and sort the whole mess into neat folders with colour-coded tabs" variety. That approach doesn't work well with ereaders/tablets.
Being reduced to learning strategies you're not used to might well explain lagging behind your peers. I suspect if that experiment was repeated among computer scientist students, you'd get significantly different results. Not the kind of study I'd put a lot of faith in.
Anecdotal "evidence" about "ebook moments" is plain useless. I've had plenty of these moments with the dead tree editions, myself.
Nielsen's argument about context lost has some merit, though.
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