{"id":3829,"date":"2013-12-31T06:09:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T11:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2020-01-02T23:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T04:25:48","slug":"into-the-body-of-the-protagonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/into-the-body-of-the-protagonist\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the body of the protagonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a title=\"Futurity Reading Novels Leaves Shadow Activity in Brain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/reading-novels-leaves-shadow-activity-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Futurity, researchers\u00a0 at Emory University\u2019s Center for Neuropolicy are exploring<\/a> what happens to your brain when you read a novel.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small study, but intriguing &#8212; and reinforces my sense that what we experience internally is, in some respects, indistinguishable from what we experience in the 3D world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe neural changes that we found associated with physical sensation and movement systems suggest that reading a novel can transport you into the body of the protagonist,\u201d Berns says. \u201cWe already knew that good stories can put you in someone else\u2019s shoes in a figurative sense. Now we\u2019re seeing that something may also be happening biologically.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read a book, and the protag becomes your avatar :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Futurity, researchers\u00a0 at Emory University\u2019s Center for Neuropolicy are exploring what happens to your brain when you read a novel. It&#8217;s a small study, but intriguing &#8212; and reinforces my sense that what we experience internally is, in some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/into-the-body-of-the-protagonist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[1437,1438],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-writing","tag-does-reading-change-the-brain","tag-gregory-berns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6000,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/6000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}