[ExI] Reading good for brain?

[BillK]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dan Ust  wrote:
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brain-function-boosted-for-days-after-reading-a-novel-9028302.html
>
> Sounds like they need to do a bit more here to back the title of the
> article. My immediate question was, "What's a good novel?" Would reading
> something by Clive Cussler be better, by this test, than something by James
> Joyce?
>
>

If reading does cause brain changes as they claim they found, this
means that Spike's testing for brain improvements while taking
nootropics needs to control for other things that might be causing
brain changes at the same time.


BillK