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It's Thursday, October 27th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Can the books we read permanently change our brains, or at least impact our values over a lifetime? Two studies that

used undergrads as guinea pigs attempt to quantify the effects of powerful

books on our brains.

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There's been a decent amount of research done into what happens to our brains when we read.

What parts of the brain fire up, how the same parts that are engaged when physically experiencing

something can also engage when simply reading about it happening, how brains react to reading

in different ways depending on neurodiversity, and generally how reading can have positive, cognitive, and emotional effects.

But Emory University psychology professor Gregory Burns was curious about the lasting effects of reading particular types of books.

Specifically, Burns was thinking about the kinds of books that people say changed their lives, especially at formative ages.

He points to Stephen King, who said that William Golding's Lord of the Flies was the first book to really affect him,

and how the evidence of that is clear in King's writing to this day.

But is there a way to see evidence of the

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