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Reading a suspenseful literary text activates brain areas related to social cognition and predictive inference

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Reading a suspenseful literary text activates brain areas related to social cognition and predictive inference. / Lehne, Moritz; Engel, Philipp; Rohrmeier, Martin et al.
In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 10, No. 5, e0124550, 06.05.2015.

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Lehne, M, Engel, P, Rohrmeier, M, Menninghaus, W, Jacobs, AM & Koelsch, S 2015, 'Reading a suspenseful literary text activates brain areas related to social cognition and predictive inference', PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 5, e0124550. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124550

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Lehne, M., Engel, P., Rohrmeier, M., Menninghaus, W., Jacobs, A. M., & Koelsch, S. (2015). Reading a suspenseful literary text activates brain areas related to social cognition and predictive inference. PLoS ONE, 10(5), Article e0124550. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124550

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Lehne M, Engel P, Rohrmeier M, Menninghaus W, Jacobs AM, Koelsch S. Reading a suspenseful literary text activates brain areas related to social cognition and predictive inference. PLoS ONE. 2015 May 6;10(5):e0124550. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124550

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Lehne, Moritz ; Engel, Philipp ; Rohrmeier, Martin et al. / Reading a suspenseful literary text activates brain areas related to social cognition and predictive inference. In: PLoS ONE. 2015 ; Vol. 10, No. 5.

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