[ExI] Reading good for brain?

[Cryonica]

It would be interesting to see if this applies to audiobooks as well, and also how does reading stories compare to reading non-fiction.
On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:45, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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