23 Oct 2012

Tune Your Engine - the ultimate Jane Austen brain workout

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 23 October 2012
Listen duration 20:18
Add to playlist

Professor Natalie Phillips from Michigan State University with research on how reading the Jane Austen novels can activates areas of the brain more commonly associated with movement and touch.

Recent stories from Afternoons

Get the RNZ app

for easy access to all your favourite programmes

Download from Apple App Store Download from Google Play Store

Subscribe to Afternoons

Podcast (MP3) Oggcast (Vorbis)