Wednesday, November 26, 2014 By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 PITTSBURGH-Some people say that reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" taught them the importance of friends, or that easy decisions are seldom right. Carnegie Mellon University scientists used a chapter of that book to learn a different lesson: identifying what different regions of the brain are doing when people read.
"The Harry Potter books," writes Jessy Randall in this essay from VERBATIM, "are not just good literature but a treasury of wordplay and invention," and we couldn't agree more.