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The Brain Science of Cliches

February 20, 2015March 11, 2013

Dead as a doornail. We’ve all heard the cliche, but what does reading it do to your brain? According to some neuroscience research, not much. In the AWP 2013 session “This Is Your Brain on Fiction,” Susan Hubbard discussed the 2012 New York Times article, “Your Brain on Fiction,” which references several recent studies of …

New Psychology Today Post: The Hedgehog’s Dilemma

February 19, 2015January 8, 2012

This week’s Psychology Today post is titled “Social Media: The Hedgehog’s Dilemma”: “One cold winter’s day, a group of hedgehogs crowded together for warmth so as not to freeze to death. However, the pain from the mass of spines soon caused them to separate again, until the cold forced them back together, and thus they continued, …