An important feature of action understanding is that comprehenders segment the perceptual
stream into events. Event segmentation dynamically engages a network of brain regions that …

Visual narratives sometimes depict successive images with different characters in the same
physical space; corpus analysis has revealed that this occurs more often in Japanese …

Despite the long scholarly discourse in Western theology and philosophy on religion,
spirituality, and faith, explanations of what a belief and what believing is are still lacking …

Prior research has suggested that an episodic specificity induction–brief training in
recollecting the details of a past event–affects downstream performance on remembering …

While semantic and episodic memory may be distinct memory systems, their
interdependence is substantial. For instance, decades of work have shown that semantic …

Highlights•Event models describe salient features of an event.•Event models are indexed by
fMRI patterns of activity in the brain's posterior medial memory network.•Event boundaries …

The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history
by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and …

Penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) is associated with deficits in cognitive tasks
including comprehension and memory, and also with impairments in tasks of daily living. In …

ABSTRACT As Pim Levelt proposed in Speaking, language production begins with the
preverbal, conceptual apprehension of an event or state of affairs that the speaker intends to …

Several studies suggest that a valuable tool to examine linguistic skills in communication
disorders is offered by procedures of narrative discourse assessment. Following this line of …