http://news-info.wustl.edu/News/2002/emotion.html
Study ties mental abilities to interaction of emotion and cognitive skills
[St. Louis, MO., 3-18-02]
In a study of how human emotional states influence higher mental abilities, cognitive neuroscientists at Washington University in St. Louis have shown that watching even just 10 minutes of classic horror films or prime-time television comedies can have a significant short-term influence on areas of the brain critical for reasoning, intelligence, and other types of higher cognition.
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