article_snippet.sent: By scanning the brains of participants as the brains of participants read passages from the collection, researchers discovered that the common use of 'arousing words' affected parts of the brain concerned with emotion.
article_snippet.sent: By scanning the brains of people reading passages from the collection, researchers discovered 'arousing words' affected parts associated with emotion .
article_snippet.sent: The team then used a magnetic resonance imaging scanner to map activity in the brains of people reading these 120 passages.
article_snippet.sent: The team then used a magnetic resonance imaging scanner to map activity in the brains of people reading these passages from the books before asking the books to rate each on valence and arousal.
article_snippet.sent: The MRI scans revealed that reading passages like the one from the Half-Blood Prince correlated with brain activity in regions associated with emotion, with building a mental model of a situation and also with the understanding of a character's state of mind.
article_snippet.sent: The team then used a magnetic resonance imaging scanner to map activity in the brains of people reading these 120 passages before The team were asked to rate each for valence and arousal.
article_snippet.sent: An fMRI study' is published in Brain and Language.
highlights_snippet.sent: 120 passages were read by participants while in an fMRI scanner .
  