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SUBMITTER: Lehne M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422438 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lehne Moritz M Engel Philipp P Rohrmeier Martin M Menninghaus Winfried W Jacobs Arthur M AM Koelsch Stefan S
PloS one 20150506 5
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 "Th ...[more]