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creators_name: Nichelli, Paolo
creators_name: Grafman, Jordan
creators_name: Pietrini, Pietro
creators_name: Clark, Kimberley
creators_name: Lee, Kyu Young
creators_name: Miletich, Robert
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creators_id: pietro.pietrini@imtlucca.it
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title: Where the brain appreciates the moral of a story
ispublished: pub
subjects: RC0321
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
abstract: 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.
date: 1995
date_type: published
publication: Neuroreport
volume: 6
number: 17
publisher: Wolters Kluver
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0959-4965
official_url: http://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=1995&issue=11270&article=00010&type=abstract
citation:   Nichelli, Paolo and Grafman, Jordan and Pietrini, Pietro and Clark, Kimberley and Lee, Kyu Young and Miletich, Robert  Where the brain appreciates the moral of a story.  Neuroreport, 6 (17).   ISSN 0959-4965      (1995)