...), and practices of thinking across the boundaries of media. It discusses both fields’ indebtedness to cultural studies, as well as cognitive literary theorists’ commitment to historicizing and their sustained focus on the embodied social mind. Copyright © 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2020...

...Micah L. Mumper; Richard J. Gerrig Research evidence supports the claim that engagement with works of fiction may benefit readers’ social cognitive abilities of empathy and theory of mind. However, there is little direct evidence to support claims about the causal mechanisms underlying the positive...

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... took him at once to the heart of a range of psychosocial issues that are today studied under the cognitive scientific rubric of “theory of mind,” including the developmental interrelations of, and motivations for, social imitation, language acquisition, and mental representation. Taking first...

...Haiyan Lee This article seeks to historicize the affinity between narrative fiction and the cognitive function known as theory of mind. The author believes this affinity holds true mostly in modern commercial societies structured by stranger sociality, cosmopolitanism, and social mobility...

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...Paul Hernadi Since prehistoric times literature has been serving two complementary functions: to expand the cognitive, emotive, and volitional horizons of human awareness and to integrate our beliefs, feelings, and desires within the fluid mentality required for survival in the complex social...

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... research concerns high-level visual perception, social cognition and emotions, and cognitive rehabilitation of brain-injured patients. Marcel Danesi is full professor of semiotics and anthropology at the Uni- versity of Toronto. He has been teaching since 1972. He has published extensively...

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... body budgeting, that is, the regulation of one s own and others pulse, breath, blood sugar, and so on, to meet the demands of different situations. Barrett further explains the intensely social, cognitive nature of human body budgeting: All members of a social species regulate each other s body...

...Katra Byram Abstract The current reckoning with systemic bias and discrimination calls for centering historical and social context in narrative theory, as in other domains of academic and public life. This article undertakes that centering in rhetorical narrative theory. Informed by genre theory...

.... Many contemporary researchers in literary studies, psychology, and philosophy like to claim that engaging with narratives enhances our mind-reading ability, or cognitive empathy, and that such skills play a crucial role in social interaction and moral development (see, e.g., Keen 2007 ; Kidd...

... of Barbauld's Hymns implicates it in the eighteenth-century ideological project of socializing children, particularly those coming from working-class families, to their proper stations in life. I investigate possible cognitive underpinnings of one particular aspect of Barbauld's “catechist,”namely its reliance...