News at Eleven (Back Page): Absurdist literature, it appears,

stimulates our brains.

That's the conclusion of a study recently published in the journal Psychological Science. Psychologists Travis Proulx of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Steven Heine of the University of British Columbia report our ability to find patterns is stimulated when we are faced with the task of making sense of an absurd tale. What's more, this heightened capability carries over to unrelated tasks.

from Miller-McCune: This Is Your Brain on Kafka
also Psychological Science: Connections From Kafka (pdf)
also Psychological Science: The Country Dentist (doc)

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