TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lehne, Moritz
A1  - Engel, Philipp
A1  - Rohrmeier, Martin
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
A1  - Jacobs, Arthur M.
A1  - Koelsch, Stefan
T1  - Reading a suspenseful literary text activates brain areas related to social cognition and predictive inference
T2  - PLOS One
N2  - Stories can elicit powerful emotions. A key emotional response to narrative plots (e.g., novels, movies, etc.) is suspense. Suspense appears to build on basic aspects of human cognition such as processes of expectation, anticipation, and prediction. However, the neural processes underlying emotional experiences of suspense have not been previously investigated. We acquired functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data while participants read a suspenseful literary text (E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman") subdivided into short text passages. Individual ratings of experienced suspense obtained after each text passage were found to be related to activation in the medial frontal cortex, bilateral frontal regions (along the inferior frontal sulcus), lateral premotor cortex, as well as posterior temporal and temporo-parietal areas. The results indicate that the emotional experience of suspense depends on brain areas associated with social cognition and predictive inference.
KW  - Spannung
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Hoffmann, E. T. A.
KW  - Funktionelle Kernspintomografie
KW  - Präfrontaler Cortex
KW  - Erzähltechnik
KW  - Gefühl
KW  - Affekt
KW  - Hoffmann, E. T. A. / Der Sandmann
KW  - Empirische Ästhetik
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46909
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-469093
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 10
IS  - (5): e0124550.
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
ER  -