Solution for many addicts reading Harry Potter

Recent research offers a solution to why so many people have gobbled up reading Harry Potter to "forget to eat and forget to sleep."

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Many of us who hold the Harry Potter book have read so vigorously that we "forget to forget to sleep" . However, not everyone can explain the reason why we are so attracted.

Scientists from Berlin University (Germany) recently conducted an investigation and surveyed the brain to explain this reaction.

Accordingly, the research team - led by the psychologist Chun-Ting Hsu, gave the theory "to enter into the novel".

He said that we often read long stories, romance novels and tend to sympathize with the main character in the story. This feeling is triggered by a special neural network located in the cingulate cortex and the anterior insula .

By promoting the emotions of empathy in the brain, emotional stories, bringing intriguing and unexpected episodes will make the reader more attracted and more involved in the story.

For a more thorough examination, the team focused on two groups of participants and several cut stories in the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling.

Experts will conduct MRI brain scans while the first group is required to read the story. The second group will also read the story, but will not be able to scan MRI brain, but this group will have to make a judgment, assessing the feeling of reading.

As a result, in the second group, the volunteers stated that they had imagined the Quirinus Quirrell Professor of Art Prevention who was smoking white blood in the forbidden forest in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. very clear way to read that story.

Psychologist Chun-Ting Hsu said: "In the stories that frighten the reader will stimulate the brain strongly. Accordingly, the cingulate gyrus of the brain will be stimulated, helping Readers increase empathy with the story, characters in the story ".

He added: "This discovery will help us open up many new ideas, better understand how our brain has been" hypnotized "when reading interesting and interesting stories."

The study was published in NeuroReport.

Reference: Science Alert