In the article “Your Brain on Fiction,” the author, Annie Murphy Paul, explains the neurological effects that reading fiction has on different areas of our brain and its bene- fits to us as humans. She states how researchers have put a significant amount of time and energy into analyzing how reading fiction actively stimulates the human brain and it’s various lobes. With the help of a functional magnetic resonance machine (fMRI) re- searchers can watch which areas of the brain “light” up as a person reads certain words. Sensory words in particular, such as tastes and smells, when read activate the region within the brain responsible for processing odours and tastes. Similarly, the motion cortex of the brain would also light up when a person
