The flow of narrative in the mind unmoored : an account of narrative processing
Jajdelska, Elspeth (2019) The flow of narrative in the mind unmoored : an account of narrative processing. Philosophical Psychology, 32 (4). pp. 560-583. ISSN 0951-5089 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2019.1585796)
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Abstract
Verbal narratives provide incomplete information and can be very long, yet readers and hearers often effortlessly fill in the gaps and make connections across long stretches of text, sometimes even finding this immersive. How is this done? In the last few decades, event-indexing situation modeling and complementary accounts of narrative emotion have suggested answers. Despite this progress, comparisons between real-life perception and narrative experience might underplay the way narrative processing modifies our world model, as well as the role of the emotions that do not relate to characters. I reframe narrative experience in predictive processing and neural networks, capturing continuity between fiction, perception, and states like dreaming and imagination, enabled by the flexible instantiation of concepts. In this framework, narrative experience is more clearly revealed as a creative experience that can share some of the phenomenology of dreams.
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Item type: Article ID code: 66091 Dates: DateEvent19 May 2019Published18 March 2019Published Online7 August 2018AcceptedSubjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 13 Nov 2018 16:46 Last modified: 03 Oct 2024 00:29 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66091