Additional Sources

This is a holding page for readings that may or may not be assigned in class. I’ll keep adding to this page as the semester progresses. Please feel free to send in others to share with the rest of the class!

• “The Nun Study: Clinically silent AD, neuronal hypertrophy, and linguistic skills in early life” (2009)

• “Professional training in creative writing is associated with enhanced fronto-striatal activity in a literary text continuation task” (2014)

• “Writing Affects the Brain Network of Reading in Chinese” (2013)

• “Coordinating the Cognitive Processes of Writing: The Role of the Monitor” (2012)

• “Creativity meets neuroscience: Experimental tasks for the neuroscientific study of creative thinking” (2006)

• “Neural Correlates of Creative Writing: An fMRI Study” (2013)

• “Intraoperative linguistic performance during awake brain surgery predicts postoperative linguistic deficits” (2018)

• “Differentiation of Hemodynamic Responses of the Brain with Typing and Writing” (2015)

• Excerpts: The Man Who Forgot How to Read, Howard Engel (2008)

• Excerpt: Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life (1995)

• “Musician Plays Her Violin During Brain Surgery” (2020)

• “Woman plays flute while undergoing open brain surgery” (2018)

• “Neuroimaging correlates of handwriting quality as children learn to read and write” (2014)

On reflective writing, identity formation, and/or therapy:

• Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development (2010; selected chapters available via Google Books)

• “The Journey Back to Oneself: Reimagining Medical Education” (2018; excerpt from Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice)

• “Reflective Writing as a Window on Medical Students’ Professional Identity Development in a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship” (2020)

• “Five Year Experience: Reflective Writing in a Preclinical End-of-Life Care Curriculum” (2008)

• “Use of Experiential Learning, Reflective Writing, and Metacognition to Develop Cultural Humility Among Undergraduate Students” (2019)

• “Self-compassion induction enhances recovery from social stressors” (2018)

• “Therapeutic journaling in a veterans treatment court” (2015)

• “The efficacy of written exposure therapy versus imaginal exposure delivered online for posttraumatic stress disorder” (2020)

• “A Safe Space for Veteran Writers” (2014)

• “(Re)visioning the Self Through Art” (2015)

• “The Decay of Lying” (1891)

• “A Matter of Identity” (1970)<—excerpt from Oliver Sack’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

On language development and “universal grammar” (or not):

• “How Language Shapes Thought” (2020)<—a longer lecture by Lera Boroditsky

• “The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science” (2009)

• “Broca’s area and the language instinct” (2003)

• Review of Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct (1995/1994)

On “word poverty” and related issues:

• “Language learning, socioeconomic status, and child-directed speech” (2016)

• “Key to Vocabulary Gap Is Quality of Conversation, Not Dearth of Words” (2015)

• “Going Big” (2008)<—a total upper of a listen; the relevant parts are the Prologue and Part I: Harlem Renaissance

• “Effects of Early Language Deprivation on Brain Connectivity: Language Pathways in Deaf Native and Late First-Language Learners of American Sign Language” (2019)

• “What you don’t know can hurt you: The risk of language deprivation by impairing sign language development in deaf children” (2018)

• “The Right to Language” (2013)

• “How books in adolescence enhance adult literacy, numeracy and technology skills in 31 societies” (2019)

On the shift to the digital reading brain, etc.:

• “Building Deep Reading Brains in a Digital World” (2020)<—lecture by Maryanne Wolf

• “Building a Biliterate Brain” (2018)<—excerpts from Wolf’s follow-up book after Proust and the Squid

On bilingual literacies, and also related dyslexias:

• “The Myths and Truths of Dyslexia in Different Writing Systems” (2015)

• “Developmental dyslexia in Chinese and English populations: dissociating the effect of dyslexia from language differences” (2010)

• “It's all Chinese to me: Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese” (2009)

  
  

On reading, writing, and empathy:

• “What Do Mirror Neurons Do?” (2019)<—a short and easy intro. video

• “This is Your Brain on Communication” (2016)<—TED talk by Uri Hasson, lot of fun graphics to watch

  • “Clicking: How Our Brains Are in Sync” (2018)<—an article on Hasson’s work

• “The Human Mirror Neuron System, Social Control, and Language” (2013)

• “The Mirror Neuron Mechanism and Literary Studies: An Interview with Vittorio Gallese” (2010)

• “Mirror neurons and their function in cognitively understood empathy” (2013)<—not about literacy, but might help put the mirror neuron material into context

• “Cultivating empathy through high-intensity writing practice” (2019)

• “Empathy or Bird Calls: How We Write Matters” (2013)

• “How Reading Fiction Increases Empathy and Encourages Understanding” (2020)

• “Improving empathy of physicians through guided reflective writing” (2012)

• “Early Research Suggests Our Brains Sync Up With Musicians' During a Performance” (2020)

On memory (and memoir):

• “A picture is worth a thousand lies: Using false photographs to create false childhood memories” (2002)

• “Neural Correlates of Reactivation and Retrieval-Induced Distortion” (2012)

• “Hippocampal Binding of Novel Information with Dominant Memory Traces Can Support Both Memory Stability and Change” (2014)

• “Your Memory is like the Telephone Game” (2012)"<—A news article that speaks to the work of the author of the two articles immediately above

• “Writing a Memoir Is a Strange Psychological Trip Through Your Past” (2017)

• “Neural correlates of the episodic encoding of pictures and words” (1998)

• Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By (2015, excerpts from Ch. 1)

• "Our Storied Lives” (2010)<—An NPR spot on why we turn our lives into stories, and how we use narrative to recover from traumas

• “How Does Your Memory Work?” (2014)<—A BBC spot that walks through the basic steps of memory (encoding—>consolidation—>retrieval)

• “Why Verbalization of Non-Verbal Memory Reduces Recognition Accuracy” (2014)

• “Verbal facilitation effects instead of verbal overshadowing in face memory of 4- to 6-year olds” (2016)

• “Memory” (episode 1 of The Mind, Explained, on Netflix if you have it)

On literacy and nature:

• ”Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health” (2020)

• ”Reading In and Through Nature: An Outdoor Pedagogy for Reading Literature” (2014)

• “THE ROOTS OF WELLBEING: POSITIVE EFFECTS OF NATURE WRITING” (2020)

• “FINDING HOME: Teaching Nature Writing in the Urban Multicultural Setting” (2000)

On (mostly reading) poetry and cognition:

• “Poetry on the Mind and in the Brain” (2019)

• “This Is What Happens to Your Brain When You Read Poetry” (2017)

• “The emotional power of poetry: neural circuitry, psychophysiology and compositional principles” (2017)

• “LET YOUR MIND WANDER” (2017)

• “The Human Brain Is Hardwired for Poetry” (2017)

Did I miss anything? Feel free to text or email me if you need something else!