{"id":28415,"date":"2012-06-28T00:49:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/words-mean-things-2.html"},"modified":"2012-06-28T00:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:49:09","slug":"words-mean-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/words-mean-things-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Words mean things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading about stuff stimulates the brain in a way similar to the stuff itself. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Makes reading all the more attractive to me.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Monica Speca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is absolutely fascinating<\/b>. If this is what reading does for our brains, what does that say about pen and paper gaming?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/18\/opinion\/sunday\/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&smid=fb-share<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStories stimulate the brain. Metaphors like \u201cHe had leathery hands\u201d rouse the sensory cortex.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Reading about stuff stimulates the brain in a way similar to the stuff itself. \u00a0 \u00a0Makes reading all the more attractive to me. Reshared post from +Monica Speca This is absolutely fascinating. If this is what reading does for our brains, what does that say about pen and paper gaming? http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/18\/opinion\/sunday\/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&smid=fb-share Embedded Link The Neuroscience … Continue reading “Words mean things”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/theres-reading-between-the-lines-and-theres-making-stuff-up.html","url_meta":{"origin":28415,"position":0},"title":"There's reading between the lines, and there's making stuff up","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Nov-12 7:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"This falls squarely into the latter, as famous (?) \"forensic profiler\"\u00a0\"Andrew G. 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