<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">It would be interesting to see if this applies to audiobooks as well, and also how does reading stories compare to reading non-fiction.<br><div><div>On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:45, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dan Ust wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brain-function-boosted-for-days-after-reading-a-novel-9028302.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brain-function-boosted-for-days-after-reading-a-novel-9028302.html</a><br><br>Sounds like they need to do a bit more here to back the title of the<br>article. My immediate question was, "What's a good novel?" Would reading<br>something by Clive Cussler be better, by this test, than something by James<br>Joyce?<br><br><br></blockquote><br>If reading does cause brain changes as they claim they found, this<br>means that Spike's testing for brain improvements while taking<br>nootropics needs to control for other things that might be causing<br>brain changes at the same time.<br><br><br>BillK<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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