Stories are used extensively for human communication; both the comprehension and
production of oral and written narratives constitute a fundamental part of our experience …

The past decade has seen a rapid growth of cognitive and brain research focused on visual
narratives like comics and picture stories. This paper will summarize and integrate this …

(i) for the theorist of literature and narrative I will briefly summarize the main directions in the
psychological approach to stories and indicate why such an approach is relevant in the …

The effects of structure and content variables on memory and comprehension of prose
passages were studied in two experiments. The experimental passages exemplify a class of …

In a variety of ways, narratives provide evidence for the nature of the mind. Dreams may be
the strongest evidence we have that the mind goes on busily constructing its own …

Since before the dawn of history, people have been telling stories to each other and to
themselves. Thus stories are at the root of human experience. This volume describes …

Discusses coverage of the The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
regarding cognitive science and narrative theory. The theories, data, and insights reported in …

Stories are a common way in which humans convey and acquire new information. Their
effectiveness and memorability require that they be understood which, in turn, depends on …

Narrative discourse has received a large amount of attention in discourse psychology during
the last 25 years (Bruner, 1986; Gerrig, 1993; Goldman, Graesser, & van den Broek, 1999; …

When reading a narrative, comprehension and retention of information benefit considerably
from the use of situation models—coherent representations of the characters, locations, and …