Havas, D. A., Glenberg, A. M., Gutowski, K. A., Lucarelli, M. J., &Davidson, R. J. (2010). Cosmetic use of botulinum toxin-A affects processing of emotional language.
How does language reliably evoke emotion, as it does when people read a favorite novel or listen to a skilled orator? Recent evidence suggests that comprehension involves a mental simulation of sentence content that calls on the same neural systems used in literal action, perception, and emotion. In this study, we demonstrated that involuntary facial expression plays a causal role in the processing of emotional ...