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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
"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.
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So the conclusion is: "Reading hard stuff is hard"