Old proverbs in new skins-an fMRI study on defamiliarization

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Bohrn, Isabel C ^a   Altmann, Ulrike ^a   Lubrich, Oliver ^a,b   Menninghaus, Winfried ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion   (Germany)

Author keywords

Esthetics; Familiarity; fMRI; Foregrounding; Literature; Proverbs; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865555778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00204     Document Type: Article

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