The brain must dynamically integrate, coordinate, and respond to internal and external
stimuli across multiple time scales. Non-invasive measurements of brain activity with fMRI …

Fiction is the simulation of selves in interaction. People who read it improve their
understanding of others. This effect is especially marked with literary fiction, which also …

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major
advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what …

Using movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in human neuroimaging studies has
yielded significant advances in understanding of cognitive and emotional functions. The …

A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory,
formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro) cognitive poetics has …

Functional connectivity has been observed to fluctuate across the course of a resting state
scan, though the origins and functional relevance of this phenomenon remain to be shown …

Naturalistic stimuli such as movies, music, and spoken and written stories elicit strong
emotions and allow brain imaging of emotions in close-to-real-life conditions. Emotions are …

Despite an explosion of research in the affective sciences during the last few decades,
interdisciplinary theories of human emotions are lacking. Here we present a neurobiological …

Storytelling content is where the facts are conveyed by emotion and that make people more
engaged and want to take action or change their surroundings. Stories fascinate people and …

Numerous functional neuroimaging studies suggest that widespread bilateral parietal,
temporal, and frontal regions are involved in tool-related and pantomimed gesture …