“In an innovative interdisciplinary study, neurobiological experts, radiologists and humanities scholars are working together to explore the relationship between reading, attention and distraction – by reading Jane Austen.”
This is your brain on Jane Austen, and Stanford researchers are taking notes
Cool- there have been MRI studies on how the brain responds to music, but none on how the brain responds to literature
Critical reading of humanities-oriented texts is recognized for fostering analytical thought, but if such results hold across subjects, Phillips said it would suggest “it’s not only what we read – but thinking rigorously about it that’s of value, and that literary study provides a truly valuable exercise of people’s brains.”
The only part of this study that I don’t like is the underlying notion that humanities need to be validated by science.
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