Humans love a well-told story and scientists are beginning to understand why. According to a 2010 study by three Princeton researchers, the act of listening to, and comprehending, a narrative creates an unconscious physical alignmentĂ‚Â between the storyteller and the audience: their brains link up, showing the same patterns of activation. In most of the brain regions, the shared patterns appear in the listener just …
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:00AM on March 20, 2012