Fiction feelings in Harry Potter: Haemodynamic response in the mid-cingulate cortex correlates with immersive reading experience

NeuroReport

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 1356-1361

  Hsu, Chun Ting ^a   Conrad, Markus ^a,b   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Absorption; Affective empathy; Fiction feeling hypothesis; Mid cingulate cortex; Pain empathy; Reading; Transportation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BOLD SIGNAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEAR; FEMALE; FICTION FEELING HYPOTHESIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MID CINGULATE CORTEX; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NARRATION; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916925461     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000000272     Document Type: Article

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