title: Caring About Dostoyevsky: The Untapped Potential of Studying Literature.
abstract: Should cognitive scientists and neuroscientists care about Dostoyevsky? Engaging with fiction is a natural and rich behavior, providing a unique window onto the mind and brain, particularly for mental simulation, emotion, empathy, and immersion. With advances in analysis techniques, it is time that cognitive scientists and neuroscientists embrace literature and fiction.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: r.willems@let.ru.nl.
authors.forename: Roel M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Willems
authors.affiliation: Department of Education and Psychology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin (CCNB), Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotions (DINE), Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Arthur M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Jacobs
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history
keywords: cognition; emotion; immersion; literature; mental simulation