Why Reading Makes You Smarter: Insights from Neuroscience

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1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   2 corrections applied: Rogowsky et al. (2016) appeared in Journal of Educational Psychology; Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior ceased in 1985 | The 2006 Mar/Oatley Reading the Mind in the Eyes study appeared in Journal of Research in Personality, not Cognition

   What the page claimed

   Body text was already correctly fixed to read: "His 2006 paper in the Journal of Research in Personality, written with Mar, Djikic, and Mullin..." BUT the bibliography still had the stale entry: "Oatley, K., Mar, R. A., Djikic, M., & Mullin, J. (2006). On making imaginary worlds real. Cognition, 79(1), 116-129." AND the FAQ field still said: "His experimental research, including a 2006 study in Cognition, found that regular fiction readers score higher on tests of social cognition and empathy..."

   What was corrected

   Corrected the bibliography entry to: "Oatley, K., Mar, R. A., Djikic, M., & Mullin, J. (2006). On making imaginary worlds real. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(2), 130-155." AND corrected the FAQ to read: "His experimental research, including a 2006 study in the Journal of Research in Personality, found that regular fiction readers score higher on tests of social cognition and empathy..."

   Why: The body text fix for the Mar/Oatley 2006 paper's journal (Journal of Research in Personality, not Cognition) had landed correctly, but the same stale unverified journal name survived in both the bibliography/references list entry and the invisible FAQ (JSON-LD) field. Fixed both locations to match the corrected body text and verified via re-fetch that no stale 'Cognition' reference to this paper remains anywhere in the post.

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