Storytelling and Science Collide by Jessica Benko

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 alignment 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 …

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