Many human behavioral and brain imaging studies have used narratively structured stimuli
(eg, written, audio, or audiovisual stories) to better emulate real-world experience in the …

Narrative stimuli offer a unique opportunity for research in cognitive neuroscience because
they evoke cognitive processes that are difficult or impossible to study with traditional …

A naturalistic spoken recall paradigm with fMRI was used to investigate how the structure of
a complex realistic experience affects memory. Subjects watched short movie clips and then …

Understanding movies and stories requires maintaining a high-level situation model that
abstracts away from perceptual details to describe the location, characters, actions, and …

People organize and convey their thoughts according to narratives. However,
neuroscientists are often reluctant to incorporate narrative stimuli into their experiments. We …

Why are some narratives more successful? Although this question has ancient roots,
studying it empirically has been challenging. We suggest that semantic progression (ie …

Studies of discourse have long placed focus on the inference generated by information that
is not overtly expressed, and theories of visual narrative comprehension similarly focused on …

The ubiquity and importance of narratives has been recognized by many disciplines (Sarbin,
1986; Turner, 1996; Angus and McLeod, 2004; Boyd, 2010; McAdams and McLean, 2013; …

While the ubiquity and importance of narratives for human adaptation is widely recognized,
there is no integrative framework for understanding the roles of narrative in human …

Previous research has argued that narrative is an evolutionary adaptation, offering
advantages in terms of survival and reproductive successes. It is yet unclear, however, how …