Article: “This Is Your Brain on Jane Austen”

The study also provides us with a fascinating picture—quite literally—of the ways in which the imaginative experience of reading takes place in our bodies as well as our minds. Close, sustained, and attentive reading, Phillips found, activates parts of the brain responsible for movement and touch, “as though,” writes NPR, “readers were physically placing themselves within the story as they analyzed it.”

Source: This Is Your Brain on Jane Austen: The Neuroscience of Reading Great Literature | Open Culture