Descriptively written passages in novels can invoke the same emotional response as a captivating scene in a movie. "We placed our participants in an fMRI scanner to measure their brain activity while we first showed our subject short 3s movie clips of an actor sipping from a cup and then looking disgusted," said Christian Keysers. "Later on, we asked them to read and imagine short ... Read full entry
Good writing can invoke movie scene like empathy
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