Old Proverbs in new Skins – An fMRI Study on Defamiliarization

Old Proverbs in new Skins – An fMRI Study on Defamiliarization

We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization contribute to the affective and aesthetic processing of reading in an event-related fMRI experiment with 26 participants. We compared the neural correlates of processing (a) familiar German proverbs, (b) unfamiliar proverbs, (c) twisted va...

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Main Authors: Isabel C Bohrn, Ulrike eAltmann, Oliver eLubrich, Winfried eMenninghaus, Arthur M Jacobs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Literature
aesthetics
fMRI
reading
Familiarity
foregrounding
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00204/full

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