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小説を読むときに人間の脳はシミュレーションをしている、という話。
能科学から。
Your brain on fiction: we simulate action we read in narrative / Boing Boing

Nicole Speer, lead author of this study, says findings demonstrate that reading is by no means a passive exercise. Rather, readers mentally simulate each new situation encountered in a narrative. Details about actions and sensation are captured from the text and integrated with personal knowledge from past experiences. These data are then run through mental simulations using brain regions that closely mirror those involved when people perform, imagine, or observe similar real-world activities.

なんというか、ごく当然のこと、という感じもしないでもないけれど。