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Want some smarts? Read Kafka

Kafka BookReading a book by Franz Kafka –– or watching a film by director David Lynch –– could make you smarter!

According to research by psychologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, exposure to the surrealism in, say, Kafka’s “The Country Doctor” or Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions. The researchers’ findings appear in an article published in the September issue of the journal Psychological Science. [continue reading…]