一项研究通过核磁共振扫描发现，阅读情感丰富的文本时，大脑愉悦奖励区域的反应与听音乐时的兴奋感相似。此外，读诗会激活与内省相关的默认网络。这表明文学与音乐在情绪反应上有共通之处，且不同文本激活的脑区各异，为后续研究留下了诸多未解之谜。
A research study has looked into what happens inside your brain while you read and listen to music.
一项研究调查了当你阅读和听音乐时，大脑内部会发生什么。
You know that thrill(兴奋)you get when listening to your favorite music? That exciting feeling when you hear your favorite songs? According to a recent study, it seems the same thing can happen while you are reading, but not with every kind of text. This opens up interesting questions around how music, reading and emotions are connected in the brain.
你知道听最喜欢的音乐时那种兴奋感吗？听到最爱歌曲时那种激动的心情？根据最近的一项研究，这种感受在阅读时也可能发生，但并非所有类型的文本都能引发它。这引发了关于音乐、阅读与情绪如何在大脑中相互关联的有趣问题。
The study
这项研究
“We decided we would do a comparison between four or five different kinds of texts to see how the brain reacted,” explains Adam Zeman, a scientist. “The participants (参与者) lay in an MRI scanner reading the texts, and then we compared brain activity for those five texts.” The texts ranged (涉及) from deadly boring ones to highly exciting ones, including the Highway Code, parts from novels, and poems.
“我们决定比较四到五种不同类型的文本，看看大脑会如何反应，”科学家亚当·泽曼解释道。“参与者躺在核磁共振扫描仪里阅读这些文本，然后我们比较了这五种文本对应的大脑活动。”这些文本范围从极其枯燥到高度刺激，包括《公路法规》、小说片段和诗歌。
So what happened in the participants’ brains while they were reading?
那么，当参与者阅读时，他们的大脑里发生了什么？
Emotional reaction
情绪反应
As the researchers observed, participants found some texts more emotional than others. When reading these emotional texts, there was higher activity in brain areas related to pleasure and reward—the same areas related to the thrill we get when we listen to music. As Zeman says, “it perfectly shows that the emotional reaction to literature(文学) and to music has quite a bit in common. That doesn’t seem to matter whether you are listening or reading if you get a thrill. That was one quite strong finding.”
正如研究人员所观察到的，参与者发现某些文本比其他文本更具情感色彩。阅读这些富有情感的文本时，与愉悦和奖励相关的大脑区域活跃度更高——这些区域也与我们听音乐时获得的兴奋感有关。正如泽曼所说：“这完美地表明，对文学和音乐的情绪反应有很多共同点。无论你是在听还是在读，只要感到兴奋，似乎并不重要。这是一个相当有力的发现。”
Introspection(内省)
内省
There were more interesting findings. Reading poetry is often considered an activity that requires us to use the brain, but did the study find any truth of this? When the participants were reading poems, the team found there was more activity in a particular group of brain areas called the Default Network. “These areas seem to be related to things we do with our minds when we are resting, like thinking about what’s happened to us recently, thinking about what’s going to happen in the near future, about other people, and that network seems to be more strongly related to poetry than with other texts,” explains Zeman. This connection between poetry and introspection could be the subject of further research.
还有更多有趣的发现。人们常认为读诗是一种需要动脑筋的活动，但这项研究是否证实了这一点？当参与者阅读诗歌时，研究团队发现一组被称为“默认网络”的特定脑区活动更活跃。“这些区域似乎与我们在休息时用大脑做的事情有关，比如回想最近发生的事、思考不久的将来会发生什么、考虑他人等，而这个网络似乎比与其他文本相比，与诗歌的联系更强，”泽曼解释道。诗歌与内省之间的这种联系可能成为进一步研究的主题。
Conclusions
结论
The study shows that the different texts activate different areas of our brains when we read. Zeman says, “the study did support what we thought: reaction to literature was going to be a bit like the one to music in terms of emotion. We felt that we ended up with a great deal of unanswered questions which we hope somebody will continue to ask.”
研究表明，当我们阅读不同类型的文本时，它们会激活大脑的不同区域。泽曼说：“这项研究确实支持了我们的想法：在情绪层面，人们对文学的反应会与对音乐的反应有些相似。我们觉得最终留下了大量未解之谜，希望有人能继续追问这些问题。”
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