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Published 12:20 5 Jan 2014 GMT
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Participants read Pompeii by Robert Harris
For a period of two and a half weeks students read 30 pages of the novel at night and had their brains scanned the following morning. The scans were taken after the students completed a test to prove they had carried out the reading. All scans were carried out for several days after each section was completed, and the results showed “heightened connectivity” in the left temporal cortex, an area of the brain associated with receptivity for language, and also in the central sulcus, the brain’s primary sensory motor region.
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