Reading a novel amps your brain even after you are finished - ZipMinis: Science of Blogging and Writing

Reading a novel amps your brain even after you are finished - ZipMinis: Science of Blogging and Writing

Mines the Emory University's new research, showing that reading a gripping novel produces brain adaptations that continue well after you have finished the book.

Notes that the neuroscientist Gregory Berns found neural adaptations through reading that are associated with the physical senses and movement, suggesting that one lives the experience of the novel vicariously. You are essentially placed in the personae of the protagonist.