Aesthetic appraisals of literary style and emotional intensity in narrative engagement are neurally dissociable

Hartung & Wang et al. use fMRI data from 52 participants to explore two aspects of aesthetic experiences during narrative engagement - literariness and narrative fluctuations in appraised emotional intensity. Their results demonstrate a neural dissociation in processing literary form and emotion...

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Main Authors: Franziska Hartung, Yuchao Wang, Marloes Mak, Roel Willems, Anjan Chatterjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-12-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02926-0

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