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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 8, Pages 989-999Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02397.x
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01-MH70674, R01 MH070674, R01 MH070674-04] Funding Source: Medline
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To understand and remember stories, readers integrate their knowledge of the world with information in the text. Here we present functional neuroimaging evidence that neural systems track changes in the situation described by a story. Different brain regions track different aspects of a story, such as a character's physical location or current goals. Some of these regions mirror those involved when people perform, imagine, or observe similar real-world activities. These results support the view that readers understand a story by simulating the events in the story world and updating their simulation when features of that world change.
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