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Brain Scans Of Actors Find Different Neural Functioning When They’re In Character

THEATRE Posted: March 13, 2019 7:04 am

“Writing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, [Canadian researchers] report how 15 method actors, mainly theatre students, were trained to take on a Shakespeare role – either Romeo or Juliet – in a theatre workshop, and were asked various questions, to which they responded in character. They were then invited into the laboratory, where their brains were scanned in a series of experiments.” – The Guardian

THEATRE Published: 03.13.19

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