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SUBMITTER: Havas DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3070188 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Havas David A DA Glenberg Arthur M AM Gutowski Karol A KA Lucarelli Mark J MJ Davidson Richard J RJ
Psychological science 20100614 7
How does language reliably evoke emotion, as it does when people read a favorite novel or listen to a skilled orator? Recent evidence suggests that comprehension involves a mental simulation of sentence content that calls on the same neural systems used in literal action, perception, and emotion. In this study, we demonstrated that involuntary facial expression plays a causal role in the processing of emotional language. Subcutaneous injections of botulinum toxin-A (BTX) were used to temporarily ...[more]