title: Default mode network: the seat of literary creativity?
abstract: Literacy implies convergence, with heard and read narratives directed from separate sensory pathways towards common linguistic and semantic brain systems - very 'bottom-up'. But we also actively infer, relate, remember, attend and, above all, imagine - very 'top-down'. We comment on an interesting investigation of the listening and reading brain.
authors.affiliation: Computational, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, UK. Electronic address: richard.wise@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Richard J S
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Wise
authors.affiliation: Computational, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, UK; MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Commonwealth Building, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, UK.
authors.forename: Rodrigo M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Braga
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*