... of language differences and translation. For cognitive literary studies, the approaches of predictive processing and embodied cognition have in recent years developed the conceptual means to include these differences in our discussions without falling back on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Language shapes...

... Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2021 reading speed slow reading predictive processing digitization literature Reading literature has come to be included under the so-called slow movement. Like slow food, slow clothes, and slow academia, slow reading stands against acceleration...

... “ Cognitive Narratology ,” in The living handbook of narratology , edited by Hühn Peter . Hamburg : Hamburg University . http://www.lhn.uni-hamburg.de/article/cognitive-narratology-revised-version-uploaded-22-september-2013 . Hutto Dan . 2017 “ Getting into Predictive Processing’s...

... James Rabinowitz Peter Richardson Brian Warhol Robyn 2012 Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Gritical Debates ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Hutto Dan . 2017 “ Getting into Predictive Processing’s Great Guessing Game: Bootstrap Heaven or Hell? ,” Synthese...

... to literature, narratology, and eight- eenth-century fiction in her monographs A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclas- sicism and the Novel (2017), 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found Its Feet (2019), and Probability Designs: Literature and Predictive Processing (2020...

..., in particular, to early modern visual art. 178 Poetics Today 41:2 ogies. On the other hand, they see practices of literary translation as a richly promising subject of cognitivist inquiry. Thus Kukkonen takes as her starting point the cognitive-psychological concept of predictive processing, which proposes...

... by Hühn Peter . Hamburg : Hamburg University Press . http://www.lhn.unihamburg. de/article/plot . Kukkonen Karin . 2020 . Probability Designs: Literature and Predictive Processing . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Lakoff George . 1987 . Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things...

... ), “virtual reality” (Ryan 2001 ), “narrative tension” (Baroni 2007 ), “embodiment” (Kukkonen and Caracciolo 2014 ; Caracciolo 2014 ), or “predictive processing” (Kukkonen 2020 ). All of these paradigms are focusing on the “sense of moving with time” (Fludernik 1996 : 29) for an audience immersed...

... Annunciations and their cinematic echoes, though root- ed in widely differing social settings, all feed the same representational hun- 2. Clark 2016 updates the neurology of representational hunger with the predictive processing hypothesis. 3. Ellen Spolsky (2007, 2015) extends the hypothesis in Clark...

... on the application of predictive processing to literary criticism, see Karin Kukkonen s article in this issue. 3. On the literary critical application of the concept of prototype, pioneered especially by Eleanor Rosch, see, e.g., Hogan 2011. 282 Poetics Today 41:2 paradoxically, better evoke a sense of authentic...

... and has a good sense of the character's feelings, the implied reader concentrates on filling the gaps in the narrative and makes conjectures about the trajectory of the plot. And yet their readings are not unrelated to each other. As recent accounts of “action-oriented predictive processing” show, our...

...Richard J. Gerrig; David N. Rapp Most psychological researchers now accept the premise that literary narratives have an effect on people's everyday lives. Contemporary research examines the types of psychological processes that give rise to literary impact. The article describes experiments in two...

...., “actors” and “automobiles”) are more semantically distant than when they are semantically close (e.g., “actors” and “actresses There is a second prediction that arises from the pragmatic-driven approach we adopt. Our basic processing claim is that there is increasingly more elaboration of instance...

..., and the Netherlands) read three texts of different degrees of complexity and evaluated them on a number of variables. Subsequently, they re-read and evaluated the texts once more. The hypothesis was that complex texts would be rated higher on a second than on a first reading; the opposite was predicted for the text...

... information) and the experiential model (the reader has an emotional, embodied, and holistic response). We predict which aspects of facial description will provoke a vivid response in the experiential sense and discuss examples of literary descriptions of faces in the light of these predictions. We conclude...

... of the emotional content of readers’ narrative experiences. Our goal is to highlight the diversity of processes that contribute to readers’ affective responses. Finally, we consider how ordinary processes of learning and memory might explain changes in readers’ social cognition. References Allbritton...

... Poetics Today 32:4 tance programmatically. Its verbal strategy may thus be taken as a carefully articulated model of the kind of linguistic conditions that may predictably amplify and sustain the processes of projection and blending that are sup- posed to be foundational to, or even...

... answer; it helps us improve the predictive process we used to generate it (Little and Lewandowsky 2009: 1041). Our task was to categorize the narra- tor as reliable or unreliable on the basis of uncertain cues — features that might indicate reliability only some of the time or in combination...

... by Barbauld’s poem has its spatial correlatives in what we might describe as the “temporalization of space”9 to suggest a future elsewhere, somewhere in North America or even South America, as the poem’s final lines indicate. Such a process might appear frightening in the detail with which it predicts 8...

.... But I believe there are deeper issues at stake. In particular, I do not think . Fludernik et al. predict that the ‘‘poeticsforthenewmillennium’’ will be a cognitive poetics. Richardson and Crane and Richardson review the situation...