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The "Interpreter" in Your Head Spins Stories to Make Sense of the World

The "Interpreter" in Your Head Spins Stories to Make Sense of the World | Science News | Scoop.it

We all feel we are wonderfully unified, coherent mental machines and that our underlying brain structure must reflect this overpowering sense. It doesn’t....


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Story Times can help kids’ development

Story Times can help kids’ development | Science News | Scoop.it
Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics as reported by Wired Science suggested that television consumption in children under the age of two can have negative effects on early childhood developm...
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Why Are Humans So Drawn to Stories?

Why Are Humans So Drawn to Stories? | Science News | Scoop.it

In his lively and readable new book, The Storytelling Animal, for example, Jonathan Gottschall argues that we live our entire lives in a web of story—not just when we're consciously taking in narratives from the news or the movies but whenever we dream, daydream or (if we happen to be children) play make-believe ("as automatic and insuppressible as dreams," Gottschall points out).

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