Poetry works wonders for brain! [Scotland]:
If literature is food for the mind, then a poem is a banquet, scientists say.
According to psychologists at Scotland's Dundee and St Andrews universities, poetry exercises the mind more than a novel since the former guaranteed far more eye movement associated with deeper thought, reported the daily Scotsman. [...]
They found poetry produced all the standard psychological indications associated with intellectual difficulty such as slow deliberate movement, re-reading sections and long pauses.
Even when they used identical content but displayed it in both a poem format and a prose format, they discovered readers found the poem form the more difficult to understand.
Stabler said: "When readers decide that something is a poem, they read in a different way."
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