"Harry Potter" characters and story are vivid and full of life that it's not surprising it has managed to capture the world by storm. Surprisingly so, a report reveals that J.K. Rowling's best-selling novels, particularly one out of her seven, were used to study the activity of the human brain. What book was used for the study and who were the characters involved?
A group of muggle researchers decided to track brain activity with the use of "Harry Potter" characters and scenes in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The study was meant to find out which part of the brain had been working when people would read and somehow connect this with the ideas related to them.
The study was done by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University of Pennsylvania. They had performed CT scans on the brains of eight people who had been reading "Harry Potter" characters in action in the ninth chapter of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
"It turns out that movement of the characters - such as when they are flying their brooms - is associated with activation in the same brain region that we use to perceive other people's motion," says Leila Wehbe, one of the graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University who conducted the research in a report by CMU's News site.
The "Harry Potter" characters involved were none other than the Slytherin prince, Draco Malfoy, up against Gryffindor pride, Harry Potter. Other "Harry Potter" characters involved was the three-headed dog, Fluffy, which the Golden trio namely Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger had to face.
The research done with the help of "Harry Potter" characters could somehow reveal the inner happenings in the brains of people afflicted with dyslexia or those who have trouble reading. J.K. Rowling has yet to comment on the latest study which involves her best-selling novels.
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