ruiner
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … 174455.htm
"Reading a book by Franz Kafka 末 or watching a film by director David Lynch 末 could make you smarter...
... 'The idea is that when you're exposed to a meaning threat 末 something that fundamentally does not make sense 末 your brain is going to respond by looking for some other kind of structure within your environment,' said Travis Proulx, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB and co-author of the article. 'And, it turns out, that structure can be completely unrelated to the meaning threat.'
... As part of their research, Proulx and Steven J. Heine, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia and the article's second co-author, asked a group of subjects to read an abridged and slightly edited version of Kafka's "The Country Doctor," which involves a nonsensical 末 and in some ways disturbing 末 series of events. A second group read a different version of the same short story, one that had been rewritten so that the plot and literary elements made sense. The subjects were then asked to complete an artificial-grammar learning task in which they were exposed to hidden patterns in letter strings. They were asked to copy the individual letter strings and then to put a mark next to those that followed a similar pattern."
Research paper .pdf: http://www.psych.ubc.ca/%7Eheine/docs/Kafkagrammar.pdf
Last edited by ruiner (2009 September 16, 4:00 pm)
