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A post on Discover Magazine’s blog talks about an experiment that used fMRI scans to record what happens to people’s brains while telling or listening to stories.
The result? As someone tells a story different parts of their brain light up in conjunction with what their saying.
But the really interesting finding was that the brains of people listening to stories also light up in the same places. And sometimes the listener’s brain areas actually light up before storytellers’ brains do, which the researchers say might be people anticipating what the storyteller will say next.
This all makes me picture people’s brains playing a weird game of Simon and taking it to the next level of predicting what colors will come up next. Pretty interesting stuff, next time somebody’s telling me a story it’ll be hard not to imagine our brains playing Simon together :).
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