Reading Can Change Your Brain

What if you could simply read a book and rewire your brain to be more awesome? Reading can help you to develop new perspectives and ideas, which can in turn influence the way you think and act. So while reading may not be a magic bullet for instantly "rewiring" your brain, it can certainly be a valuable tool for personal growth and development.

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You know how it feels to read a novel and feel like you're the protagonist? According to new research, you could be altering your brain circuitry and living the life you're reading about. Using an fMRI, scientists were able to examine the short-term effects of reading on neuronal activity in various areas of the brain. Your brain is filled of neurons that transfer signals to one another. In order to support this neuronal activity, the body must supply extra oxygen to various areas of the brain, therefore the blood is oxygen-rich on its way to the neurons and oxygen-depleted when it returns. Because a change in oxygen creates a change in the magnetism of the blood, scientists can detect this change in magnetism oxygen level and related neuronal activity using fMRI or functional magnetic resonance imaging, or in other words, we can identify where the brain activity is occurring. Using this technique, researchers at Emory University conducted a study in which subjects read the novel Pompey in a little more than a week. The book is a page-turning thriller by Robert Harris based on the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ancient Italy, or so the researcher claims. I'm prepared, if you're ready.

There's a movie no they said they chose it because it has a strong narrative arc and a clear lead character after establishing a baseline for five days for the next nine days the subjects would read 30 pages of book each evening the following morning after taking a quiz to ensure they did their homework researchers performed an fMRI to measure activity in specific portions of the brain they found a continuous increase in arousal with some of the most exciting chapters, the most exciting being the actual eruption of Mount Vesuvius . The results also showed heightened connectivity in the left temporal cortex, which is correlated with heightened receptivity for language, which they call shadow activity fancy. It's kind of like mental muscle memory, which is cool because even though they weren't reading the book at the time of the fMRI, there was leftover effect from the previous night of reading, and even cooler because they saw increased activity in the sensory motor regions, whereas the author of the paper says that reading a novel can transport you into the body of the character. They saw long-term changes in the protagonist's bilateral somatosensory cortex, suggesting a potential mechanism for embodied cymatics. In other words, thinking about jumping can cause the same neural activity as actually jumping; it's almost as if their brains were living the lead character's actions. But Mike, does this mean that if I read about someone doing something like shooting arrows or doing kung fu, would I be better prepared?

So in the movie "The Matrix," when Neo enters the virtual training system, he's actually only stimulating his mind, but his mind could also be preparing his body, which is really remarkable.

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