Saturday 7 May 2016

This Is Your Brain on Podcasts

By BENEDICT CAREY, NY Times

Storytelling happened, and now scientists have mapped the experience of listening to podcasts, specifically “The Moth Radio Hour,” using a scanner to track brain activity. In a paper published Wednesday by the journal Nature, a research team from the University of California, Berkeley, laid out a detailed map of the brain as it absorbed and responded to a story. Widely dispersed sensory, emotional and memory networks were humming, across both hemispheres of the brain; no story was “contained” in any one part of the brain, as some textbooks have suggested.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/science/this-is-your-brain-on-podcasts.html

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from Educational Technology http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=15738

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