Cognitive neuroscience has traditionally focused on simple tasks, presented sparsely and
using abstract stimuli. While this approach has yielded fundamental insights into functional …

Using movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in human neuroimaging studies has
yielded significant advances in understanding of cognitive and emotional functions. The …

When we remember events, we often do not only recall individual events, but also the
connections between them. However, extant research has focused on how humans segment …

Every day, the world of media is at our fingertips, whether it is watching movies, listening to
the radio, or browsing online media. On average, people spend over 8 h per day consuming …

Humans form lasting memories of stimuli that were only encountered once. This naturally
occurs when listening to a story, however it remains unclear how and when memories are …

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 …

Recently, cognitive neuroscience has experienced unprecedented growth in the availability
of large-scale datasets. These developments hold great methodological and theoretical …

Narratives may be regarded as simulations of everyday social situations. They are key to
studying the human mind in socio-culturally determined contexts as they allow anchoring to …

While recounting an experience, one can employ multiple strategies to transition from one
part to the next. For instance, if the event was learned out of linear order, one can recall …

Dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) has been increasingly used to characterize the brain
transient temporal functional patterns and their alterations in diseased brains. Meanwhile …