TY  - JOUR
SN  - 0959-4965
PB  - Wolters Kluver
A1  - Nichelli, Paolo
A1  - Grafman, Jordan
A1  - Pietrini, Pietro
A1  - Clark, Kimberley
A1  - Lee, Kyu Young
A1  - Miletich, Robert
N2  - To identify the distributed brain regions used for appreciating the grammatical, semantic and thematic aspects of a story, regional cerebral blood flow was measured with positron emission tomography in nine normal volunteers during the reading of Aesop's fables. In four conditions, subjects had to monitor the fables for font changes, grammatical errors, a semantic feature associated with a fable character, and the moral of the fable. Both right and left prefrontal cortices were consistently, but selectively, activated across the grammatical, semantic, and moral conditions. In particular, appreciating the moral of a story required activating a distributed set of brain regions in the right hemisphere which included the temporal and prefrontal cortices. These findings emphasize that story processing engages a widely distributed network of brain regions, a subset of which become preferentially active during the processing of a specific aspect of the text.
Y1  - 1995///
AV  - none
TI  - Where the brain appreciates the moral of a story
IS  - 17
JF  - Neuroreport
UR  - http://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=1995&issue=11270&article=00010&type=abstract
VL  - 6
ID  - eprints3348
ER  -