... to assess the skepticism that is routinely directed toward those who use cognitive science to interpret literature. More precisely, I argue that the originary function of the symbolic sign is the deferral of lower-level indexical reference strategies. This originary anthropological function is most clearly...

...Eyal Segal Zunshine Lisa , Getting inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2012 . xiii + 217 pp . © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Deborah...

...: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science ( Abingdon, UK : Routledge ). Gerrig Richard J. 1993 Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press ). 2011 “ Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Readers...

...Tony Jackson Cognitive science and evolutionary psychology show great potential as explanatory paradigms for a wide array of cultural products and activities,including literature. In some scholars' minds these two fields are emerging as the cornerstones of a major “new interdisciplinarity” that may...

... , no. 12 : 1656 – 66 . Bergen Benjamin K. 2012 . Louder than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning . New York : Basic . Boyd Brian . 2009 . On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bracher...

.... 2000 “Questioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism,” Poetics Today 21 : 319 -47. Koestler, Arthur 1964 The Act of Creation (New York: Macmillan). Storey, Robert 1996 Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenetic Foundations...

... and ultimately that of the sciences at large. References Abbott H. Porter 2006 “ Cognitive Literary Studies: The ‘Second Generation,’ ” Poetics Today 27 : 711 – 22 . Adams Frederick 1994 “ Simon Says ,” in Franchi and Güzeldere 1994b . Adler Hans Gross Sabine 2002...

...Margaret H. Freeman This paper argues that the cognitive sciences need to incorporate aesthetic study of the arts into their methodologies to fully understand the nature of human cognitive processes, because the arts reflect insights into human experience that are unobtainable by the methodologies...

... invocation and deferral of the body, with particular attention to the eyes, which for Richards stand at the beginning and outside of the literary experience. The author argues that this deferral exists in Richards’s work and persists into embodied cognitive science’s research into eye movement in reading...

...Jeanne M. Britton Characters in Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) frequently, eagerly, and usually mistakenly impute thoughts to others. This essay explores cognitive science’s claims about thought-attribution—people guessing other people’s thoughts—in order to reinvigorate long-standing formal concerns...

... or less consistent mental representations and thereby rendering those processes perceptible. The analysis thus illustrates a reciprocal exchange between poetics and cognitive science: the systematic deviances of Shelley’s verse can be exactly characterized in terms developed by cognitive metaphor theory...

...Lisa Zunshine In this article I explore the possibility of a dialogue between cultural studies and cognitive science by proposing a “cognitive” reading of Anna Laetitia Barbauld's 1781 book Hymns in Prose for Children . Literary critics have pointed out that the tacitly catechistic mode...

... cognitive science is that the meanings of texts are indeed unstable and dependent upon contingent contexts. While theories of neuronal activity can be understood as analogous to the critique of representation, the cognitive evolutionary argument supports Stanley Cavell's counterproposal, that is, that while...

... of representation and reality. Through a juxtaposition of Ramachandran's emphasis on caricature as a central principle of art and Ellis's focus on distorted and questionable realities, this essay suggests new possibilities for the integration of cognitive science with literary and philosophical criticism. Porter...

...Jane F. Thrailkill Drawing on cognitive science, literary critics such as Mark Turner have affirmed that for human beings thinking is crucially bound up with narrative. This essay examines how Ian McEwan in his novel Saturday (2005) adds a specifically affective element to the human engagement...

... depicting lovers’ quarrels and morally flawed characters may paradoxically strike audiences as more authentically romantic because they dramatize an aspect of attachment emotions’ functioning recently elucidated by cognitive science, namely, that of “body budgeting” (allocation of energy resources...

...John Lutterbie Innovations in neural imaging have given rise to the relatively new field of neuroaesthetics, an interdisciplinary approach to issues of aesthetics located at the intersection of the cognitive sciences, arts, and humanities. Using G. Gabrielle Starr's discussion of Gian Bernini's...

..., many of its central research questions, and many of its methods from traditions of the humanities as old as classical rhetoric. Its purpose in combining old and new,the humanities and the sciences, poetics and cognitive neurobiology is not to create an academic hybrid but instead to invent a practical...

.... Corngold, Stanley 1998 Complex Pleasure (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press). Danesi, Marcel 1994 “Vico and Cognitive Science,” in The Imaginative Basis of Thought and Culture:Contemporary Perspectives on Giambattista Vico , edited by Marcel Danesi and Frank Nuesser, 47 -70 (Toronto...

..., song, drama, and their offshoots) is also a cognitive archive and that a history of cognition and of reflection on cognition might be traced through imaginative literature rather than through a history of science, a history of philosophy, or a history of ideas. In such a project, the local...