Deep Reading
What Happens in Your Brain When You Lose Yourself in a Book
Maryanne Wolf
Wolf’s Literary Hub essay (2018) on what immersive reading does in the brain, and why fiction is empathy’s training ground.
The act of taking on the perspective and feelings of others is one of the most profound, insufficiently heralded contributions of the deep-reading processes.
— Maryanne Wolf, Literary Hub
Read the full essay at Literary Hub.
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