News Blog Articles | Absurdist Literature Stimulates Our Brains | Miller-McCune Online Magazine - 1 views
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Absurdist literature, it appears, stimulates our brains.
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our ability to find patterns is stimulated when we are faced with the task of making sense of an absurd tale. What's more, this heightened capability carries over to unrelated tasks.
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"the cognitive mechanisms responsible for implicitly learning statistical regularities" are enhanced when we struggle to find meaning in a fragmented narrative.
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