You know when they told us that
reading a book can change us? Well, recently it has been proven. The scientists have conducted a research
and it has showed that each book we read can affect and change our brain.
The experiment lasted 19 days
and each day in the morning the volunteers were examined with the magnetic
resonance. After five days of not reading anything at all, the participants
were to read 30 pages of Robert Harris’s Pompei-
in the evening and next day-in the morning their knowledge was tested by a
short quiz about the content of the book and after that: their brains were once
again examined with the magnetic resonance. Last five days, just like at the
very beginning, they didn’t read anything. The results were surprising. In
brief: our brains were acting as if we were taking part in the activities described
in the book. While reading, we tend to imagine ourselves being characters of
the stories and it was visible on the resonance. Of course, there’re some scientist
that sustain that even though the results in fact are interesting and it’s
clear that books evoke in us strong emotions and reactions, it doesn’t necessarily
have to mean that our brains react as we were the participants of described actions.
I think that there’s some true
in it. It happens to me that sometimes I get drawn into the stories I read and
I can’t help imagining myself as one of the protagonists. What I would do if I
were in their shoes? That’s the question I ask myself quite often, usually
getting mad at the characters that make mistakes.
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