Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains
and imagination of both readers and writers. Demonstrates how reading fiction can …

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of reading medium and a paratext
manipulation on aspects of narrative engagement. In a 2 (medium: booklet vs. iPad) by 2 …

To a greater extent than in other technical domains, research and progress in Artificial
Intelligence has always been entwined with the fictional. Its language echoes strongly with …

With the growing popularity of e‐readers such as Kindle, literary reading is increasingly
digitized. The transition from paper‐based to screen‐based literature invites theoretical and …

The primary mission of cultural institutions, including heritage sites and museums, is to
perform and perpetuate Cultural Heritage (CH) by ideally transforming audiences into …

This article presents a theoretical framework for an evolutionary understanding of minds and
meaning in fictional narratives. The article aims to demonstrate that meaning in fiction can …

This chapter identifies the historical provenance and main contentions in evolutionary
literary theory, discusses the institutional position of evolutionary literary scholars, identifies …

Ignorance represents a situation in which some potential outcomes are not even identified.
Often they are both unknown and unknowable. On a continuum that begins with risk and …

The chapters “Imagination, the Brain's Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal
Artifacts” and “The Role of Aesthetic Style in Alleviating Anxiety About the Future” are …

Do people comprehend texts differently based on genre expectation, ie whether they are
instructed to read a text as fiction or nonfiction? In earlier studies conducted before the …