Cognitive approaches have been widely hailed as “the next big thing” in the beleaguered
field of literary studies. But despite a widespread interest for what narrative means for the life …

The neural correlates of narrative production and comprehension remain poorly understood.
Here, using positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Highlights•Both encoding material and retrieval tasks can vary in terms of their narrative-
ness.•Narratives drive inter-individual neural synchrony in the default mode …

What mechanisms support our ability to estimate durations on the order of minutes?
Behavioral studies in humans have shown that changes in contextual features lead to …

Stories are often associated with entertainment, but they can also be used to convey serious
information ranging from company policies to heath advice. Stories “consist of a sequence of …

Background Many people deny science and reject health recommendations despite widely
distributed facts and statistics. Didactic science and health communication is often dry, and …

Although research on language production has developed detailed maps of the brain basis
of single word production in both time and space, little is known about the spatiotemporal …

The present study focuses on the similarities and differences in language production
between children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and children with attention …

Considering life stories as the most individual layer of personality (McAdams, 2013) implies
that life stories, similar to personality traits, exhibit some stability throughout life. Although …

Recently, a three-dimensional construct model for complex experiential Selfhood has been
proposed (Fingelkurts, Fingelkurts, & Kallio-Tamminen, 2016b, c). According to this model …