Its in fact quite simple. If we listen to a powerpoint presentation with boring bullet points, a certain part in the brain gets activated. Scientists call this Brocas area and Wernickes area. Overall, it hits our language processing parts in the brain, where we decode words into meaning. And thats it, nothing else happens. When we are being told a story, things change dramatically. Not only are the language processing parts in our brain activated, but any other area in our brain that we would use when experiencing the events of the story are too. If someone tells us about how delicious certain foods were, our sensory cortex lights up. If its about motion, our motor cortex gets active.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000
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