Fig. 2: Whole-brain analysis results for literariness and emotional intensity (Nā=ā52).

a Brain correlates of appraised literariness during narrative engagement significant at permutation-based combined cluster-voxel-extent threshold (positive correlates in purple and negative correlates in cyan). The general linear model parametrically modelled semantic events for literariness. All within-cluster voxels are family-wise error corrected at pā<ā0.05. b Brain correlates of appraised emotional intensity during narrative engagement significant at permutation-based combined cluster-voxel-extent threshold (only negative correlates survived thresholding, in cyan). The general linear model parametrically modelled semantic events for emotional intensity. All within-cluster voxels are family-wise error corrected at pā<ā0.05.