利物浦大学的研究员发现莎士比亚和华兹华斯等人的诗文有一种对心灵有利的效果,能提供火箭式的冲击力抓住读者的注意力引起某一时段的自我反应。研究人员运用扫描仪监控志愿者们读古典英文文学原文和现代翻译时的大脑活动。根据《星期日电讯报》的报导,这个实验还表明更有挑战性的散文和诗歌在大脑中产生强大的电力效果大于翻译 Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that the poetry of Shakespeare and Wordsworth et al. Has a psychologically beneficial effect that provides a rocketed impact and captures the reader’s attention to induce a period of self-reaction. Researchers use scanners to monitor volunteers’ brain activity in reading original English texts and modern translations. According to The Sunday Telegraph, this experiment also shows that more challenging essays and poems produce more powerful electrical effects in the brain than in translation