{"id":863,"date":"2009-09-21T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purplemass.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2009-09-21T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:49:46","slug":"reading-kafka-improves-learning-suggests-psychology-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Reading Kafka Improves Learning, Suggests Psychology Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\">sciencedaily.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to research by psychologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, exposure to the surrealism in, say, Kafka&#8217;s &#8220;The Country Doctor&#8221; or Lynch&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Velvet&#8221; enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions. The researchers&#8217; findings appear in an article published in the September issue of the journal <em>Psychological Science<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/09\/090915174455.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From sciencedaily.com: According to research by psychologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, exposure to the surrealism in, say, Kafka&#8217;s &#8220;The Country Doctor&#8221; or Lynch&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Velvet&#8221; enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions. The researchers&#8217; findings appear in an article published in the September issue of the journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}