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When Fiction Is Just as Real as Fact: No Differences in Reading Behavior between Stories Believed to be Based on True or Fictional Events

Experiments have shown that compared to fictional texts, readers read factual texts faster and have better memory for described situations. Reading fictional texts on the other hand seems to improve memory for exact wordings and expressions. Most of these studies used a “newspaper” vs. “literature”...

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Autores principales: Hartung, Franziska, Withers, Peter, Hagoort, Peter, Willems, Roel M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28983269
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01618