NYT-1006: HEALTH - MIND
How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect ... By BENEDICT CAREY
When things don't add up, the mind goes into high gear.
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In a series of new papers, Dr. Proulx and Steven J. Heine, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, argue that these findings are variations on the same process: maintaining meaning, or coherence. The brain evolved to predict, and it does so by identifying patterns.