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Mind, brain and narrative /

"Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to construct contexts, how to draw inferences and how to identify the key parts of a story. Writers can skil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sanford, A. J. (Anthony J.) (Autor)
Otros Autores: Emmott, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to construct contexts, how to draw inferences and how to identify the key parts of a story. Writers can skilfully convey physical sensations, prompt emotional states, effect moral responses and even alter the readers' attitudes. Mind, Brain and Narrative examines the psychological and neuroscientific evidence for the mechanisms which underlie narrative comprehension. The authors explore the scientific developments which demonstrate the importance of attention, counterfactuals, depth of processing, perspective and embodiment in these processes. In so doing, this timely, interdisciplinary work provides an integrated account of the research which links psychological mechanisms of language comprehension to humanities work on narrative and style"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-308) and indexes.
ISBN:9781139842518
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