The Magical Activation of Left Amygdala when Reading Harry Potter: An fMRI Study on How Descriptions of Supra-Natural Events Entertain and Enchant

Literature containing supra-natural, or magical events has enchanted generations of readers. When reading narratives describing such events, readers mentally simulate a text world different from the real one. The corresponding violation of world-knowledge during this simulation likely increases cogn...

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Autores principales: Hsu, Chun-Ting, Jacobs, Arthur M., Altmann, Ulrike, Conrad, Markus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25671315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118179

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25671315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118179

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