What physiological changes and cerebral traces tell us about adhesion to fiction during theater-watching?

Live theater is typically designed to alter the state of mind of the audience. Indeed, the perceptual inputs issuing from a live theatrical performance are intended to represent something else, and the actions, emphasised by the writing and staging, are the key prompting the adhesion of viewers to f...

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Main Authors: Marie-Noëlle Metz-Lutz, Yannick Bressan, Nathalie Heider, Hélène Otzenberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00059/full