A map of the brain can tell what you’re reading about

"Too busy or lazy to read Melville’s Moby Dick or Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina ? That’s OK. Whether you read the classics, or listen to them instead, the same cognitive and emotional parts of the brain are likely to be stimulated. And now, there’s a map to prove it.

UC Berkeley neuroscientists have created interactive maps that can predict where different categories of words activate the brain. Their latest map is focused on what happens in the brain when you read stories."