Fact vs fiction-how paratextual information shapes our reading processes

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-29

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

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotion; Emotion regulation; Fact; Fiction; FMRI; Literature; Narrative; Reading; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACT; FEMALE; FICTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATIVE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; THEORY OF MIND; VASCULARIZATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EMOTION; EMOTION REGULATION; FACT; FICTION; FMRI; LITERATURE; NARRATIVE; READING; THEORY OF MIND;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; OXYGEN; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84891320853     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss098     Document Type: Article

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