dc.contributor.author
Bohrn, Isabel C.
dc.contributor.author
Altmann, Ulrike
dc.contributor.author
Lubrich, Oliver
dc.contributor.author
Menninghaus, Winfried
dc.contributor.author
Jacobs, Arthur M.
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T03:11:31Z
dc.date.available
2013-03-27
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/14670
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-18861
dc.description.abstract
We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization (the art of
rendering familiar notions unfamiliar) contribute to the affective and
esthetic processing of reading in an event-related functional magnetic-
resonance-imaging experiment. We compared the neural correlates of processing
(a) familiar German proverbs, (b) unfamiliar proverbs, (c) defamiliarized
variations with altered content relative to the original proverb (proverb-
variants), (d) defamiliarized versions with unexpected wording but the same
content as the original proverb (proverb-substitutions), and (e) non-
rhetorical sentences. Here, we demonstrate that defamiliarization is an
effective way of guiding attention, but that the degree of affective
involvement depends on the type of defamiliarization: enhanced activation in
affect-related regions (orbito-frontal cortex, medPFC) was found only if
defamiliarization altered the content of the original proverb.
Defamiliarization on the level of wording was associated with attention
processes and error monitoring. Although proverb-variants evoked activation in
affect-related regions, familiar proverbs received the highest beauty ratings.
de
dc.rights.uri
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie
dc.title
Old proverbs in new skins – an fMRI study on defamiliarization
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
Front. Psychol. 3.2012, 204
dc.contributor.contact
isabel.bohrn@fu-berlin.de
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00204
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://www.frontiersin.org/Language_Sciences/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00204/abstract
refubium.affiliation
Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
de
refubium.affiliation.other
Arbeitsbereich Allgemeine und Neurokognitive Psychologie
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FUDOCS_document_000000016783
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
refubium.mycore.derivateId
FUDOCS_derivate_000000002385
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access