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Save The Words - 0 views

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    fun
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Poetry as Right-Hemispheric Language - 2 views

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    scholarly
Lisa Stewart

Readers Build Vivid Mental Simulations Of Narrative Situations - 12 views

  • The study, forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science, is one of a series in which Zacks and colleagues use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track real-time brain activity as study participants read and process individual words and short stories.
  • changes in the objects a character interacted with (e.g., "pulled a light cord") were associated with increases in a region in the frontal lobes known to be important for controlling grasping motions. Changes in characters' locations (e.g., "went through the front door into the kitchen") were associated with increases in regions in the temporal lobes that are selectively activate when people view pictures of spatial scenes.
  • readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes and movements described in a textual narrative while simultaneously activating brain regions used to process similar experiences in real life.
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YouTube - Neuron Resting Potential - 0 views

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    if you really want to understand it at the molecular level
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YouTube - Anatomy of a Neuron - 0 views

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    narrated lecture by a teacher
Lisa Stewart

Language Log » Are "heavy media multitaskers" really heavy media multitaskers? - 7 views

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    a good model for critical reading of research design
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