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Thank you for restating the point. After I wrote I started to think
more about this distinction.
I think it is an important point - and like other participatory
experiences changes the who owns the activity and where the power lies.
Lynn
On 5/15/12 12:19 PM, Charlie Carlson wrote:
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> Hi Lynn, et al,
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> The thing I thought most intriguing about the research wasn't the power of story told, but that telling of a story had a beneficial impact on the story teller. The benefit occurred in a non-threatening structure of conversation and engagement that benefited the teller and promoted social engagement. They tell the story. The act of telling the story proved useful––but not necessarily in a direct cognitive improvement in the subjects knowledge.
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> These studies may be supporting evidence that in a more normative population, such engagements probably paves the way for judgement and evaluation of evidence by other areas of the brain as well as social discussion.
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> So here, I'm speculating that exhibits and exhibitions that engender storytelling in whatever form promote affective benefits and rewards for the story creator/teller. This isn't a precedent shattering speculation or observation, but, in this case, it's more sharply defined population and highlights human behaviors that lead to the "pleasures" derived from cognitive functions. In this situation the brains' driving the experience are compromised by cell loss––their ability to form new memory gone, but the basic behaviors, that support higher functions that we associate with the fundamental processes of, science remain.
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> The teller and listener in this case are both engaged in a natural (innate?) affective behavior that has benefits for each (and the group dynamic).
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> I haven't been able to get to the actual research papers, but their abstracts seemed useful.
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> On May 15, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Lynn Baum wrote:
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>> Eric Jolly uses storytelling to make complex issues of diversity meaningful and memorable to a broad audience.
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>>>>> Hi All,
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>>>>> There are a couple of interesting and potentially informative stories
>>>> about the role of story telling in our lives and pick up almost exclusively
>>>> on the affective role of creating a story from the events or facts at hand.
>>>>> The cohort is folks with dementia, but the application is much more
>>>> universally applicable with many parallels to informal education. (I know
>>>> this is going to sound like a joke, but it's not.) I put it out there
>>>> because of the controlled double blind nature of one of research papers,
>>>>> and relevance to affective aspects of learning, and conversation. No
>>>> one ever fails a story, and I found the affective parallel between story
>>>> telling and learning striking.
>>>>> Alzheimer's Patients Turn To Stories Instead Of Memories : Shots -
>>>> Health Blog : NPR
>>>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/14/152442084/alzheimers-patients-turn-to-stories-instead-of-memories
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