In other news, scientists discover the human brain's learning algorithm performs better on new problem instances when measures are taken to prevent over fitting on the initial learning examples.
That aside, I feel like any act which exposes your mind to ideas and experiences which are wholly new would have the same effect, eg I would be genuinely surprised if there wasn't a similar effect after someone read the Sandman comics that Neil Gaiman authored for the first time.
Well, presumably the first experiment was constructed to help control for that. Though I've never been terribly sure how effective these sorts of high level psychological experiments are.
I'm much more at ease when someone talks about millisecond response times and sacchades.
My wife is a big The Mighty Boosh fan and reads a lot of Lewis Carroll, and the other night, doing a crossword, asked: "Is there a word spelled.. i-n-t-o? In-toe?"
That aside, I feel like any act which exposes your mind to ideas and experiences which are wholly new would have the same effect, eg I would be genuinely surprised if there wasn't a similar effect after someone read the Sandman comics that Neil Gaiman authored for the first time.