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"Using scanners, they monitored the brain activity of volunteers as they read pieces by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot and others. They then ''translated'' the texts into more ''straightforward'', modern language and again monitored the readers' brains as they read the words. Scans showed that the more ''challenging'' prose and poetry set off far more electrical activity in the brain."
Doesn't mean it's good or beneficial activity. Just means that their brains need to spend more time translating rather than actually absorbing (or, gods forbid, *enjoying*!) what's being read.
"Philip Davis, an English professor who has worked on the study with the university's magnetic resonance centre"
Gee. A study done by an English professor that states that the stuff he and his department teaches is better for your brain. Who'd've thunk it, eh?
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