{"id":4039,"date":"2016-10-12T06:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2016-10-12T06:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:29:44","slug":"this-is-your-brain-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/this-is-your-brain-on-books","title":{"rendered":"This Is Your Brain On Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/readingbylake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/readingbylake.jpg\" alt=\"Reading by the lake\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/readingbylake.jpg 960w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/readingbylake-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/readingbylake-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/readingbylake-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happens to the brain one hour after opening a book? That&#8217;s what The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.virginia.edu\/2015\/09\/29\/what-happens-after-opening-a-book\/\">University of Virginia Library<\/a>\u00a0set out to explain in the following infographic. \u00a0It describes reading&#8217;s effect on the brain after ten minutes, thirty minutes, sixty minutes, even hours and years later (click the image to make it larger):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WHAOAB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4040 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WHAOAB.jpg\" alt=\"What Happens After Opening a Book?\" width=\"2850\" height=\"2100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WHAOAB.jpg 2850w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WHAOAB-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WHAOAB-768x566.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WHAOAB-500x368.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2850px) 100vw, 2850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a more thorough exploration of the effects of reading on the brain, check out these articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aplus.com\/a\/what-reading-does-to-your-brain-is-fascinating?no_monetization=true\">What Reading Does To Your Brain Is Truly Fascinating<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-athletes-way\/201401\/reading-fiction-improves-brain-connectivity-and-function\">Reading Fiction Improves Brain Connectivity and Function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifestyle\/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html\">10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/68860-7-ways-reading-affects-the-brain-from-increased-empathy-to-feeling-metaphors\">7 Ways Reading Affects The Brain, From Increased Empathy To Feeling Metaphors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens to the brain one hour after opening a book? That&#8217;s what The University of Virginia Library\u00a0set out to explain in the following infographic. \u00a0It describes reading&#8217;s effect on the brain after ten minutes, thirty minutes, sixty minutes, even hours and years later (click the image to make it larger): For a more thorough exploration of the effects of reading on the brain, check out these articles: What Reading Does To Your Brain Is Truly Fascinating Reading Fiction Improves Brain Connectivity and Function 10 Benefits of Reading:&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[779,778],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-infographic","tag-university-of-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/readingbylake.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-139","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}