The piece that grabbed my attention this week offers some answers. It is about what the brain might be doing when we read for pleasure versus when we take a formalistic approach to reading. The subjects were doctoral candidates who read Jane Austen's Mansfield Park While I've read pieces about how literary analysis is good for the brain, taps critical thinking, and such, this piece introduced me to the field of literary neuroscience.
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The piece is titled "This is your brain on Jane Austen, and Stanford researchers are taking notes."
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