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SUBMITTER: Kurby CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4318524 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kurby Christopher A CA Zacks Jeffrey M JM
Brain and language 20130808 3
Previous research has shown that readers generate mental images of events. Most studies have investigated imagery during the reading of short texts, which also included explicit judgment tasks. In two fMRI studies, we assessed whether modality-specific imagery occurs during naturalistic, discourse comprehension. We identified clauses in the texts that elicited auditory, motor, or visual imagery. In both studies, reading motor imagery clauses was associated with increases in activity in left post ...[more]