When we execute any movement , from blowing out a candle to grabbing a fork or hitting a ball, a specific area of the cerebral cortex related to the execution of voluntary actions is activated. What is surprising is that, using neuroimaging techniques, the neuroscientist Friedemann Pulvermüller, from the University of Cambridge, found that this part of the brain also "turns on" when a person listens passively or silently reads certain verbs in a novel that they refer to movements (blowing, jumping, throwing…).
Their results were published in the journal Neuron , and they give writers an interesting clue about how to get a novel to deserve the label of "fast-paced ."
