neuroscientists have found plenty of proof that reading fiction stimulates all
sorts of cognitive areas—not just language regions but also those responsible
for coordinating movement and interpreting smells. Because literary books
are so mentally invigorating, and require such engagement, they make us
smarter than other kinds of reading material, as a 2009 University of Santa
Barbara indicated. Researchers found that subjects who read Kafka's "The Country
Doctor"—which includes feverish hallucinations from the narrator and surreal
elements—performed better on a subsequent learning task than a control group
that read a straightforward summary of the story. (They probably enjoyed
themselves a lot more while reading, too.)
Marco Gustafsson on 17 Dec 11A writer of crime fiction, librarian with many years experience, blogger, observer, reading fun and expert in the digital publishing market Barbara Fister tells to dbReaders.com about the last trends and the most critical issues related with digital reading.
