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In:Narrative Absorption
Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 27] 2017
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Chapter 4
Immersion into narrative and poetic worlds

A neurocognitive poetics perspective

 | Freie Universität Berlin | Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin (CCNB) | Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (D.I.N.E.)
 | Freie Universität Berlin
Published online: 9 November 2017
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Abstract
A key assumption of the neurocognitive poetics model (NCPM; Jacobs, 2015a) of literary reading is the duality of immersive and aesthetic processes being conceived as rival forces driven by different text features and their implicit vs. explicit processing. With regard to the experiential phenomenon of immersion, the NCPM specifies a variety of facilitative processes at both the affective-cognitive and neuronal levels which will be further differentiated here in the light of results from recent neurocognitive and behavioral studies on reading short stories, excerpts from novels, and poems.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Familiarity/fluency
  • 3.Heightened, unforced concentration (attention)
  • 4.Einfühlung (empathy), mood empathy, identification, and fiction feelings
  • 5.Suspense, curiosity, and surprise
    • 5.1Suspense
    • 5.2Curiosity
    • 5.3Surprise
  • 6.Optimal descriptive density, action density, and perceptual-motor enactment
  • 7.Methodological issues: How to operationalize, induce, and measure immersion?
    • 7.1Immersing in the uncanny: The Sandman studies
      • 7.1.1Textual analysis: Berlin affective word list (BAWL) predicts immersion ratings
      • 7.1.2Neural net analysis
    • 7.2Relations between rating variables
    • 7.3Reader analysis: Individual immersion curves and personality variables
  • 8.Conclusions and outlook
  • Note
  • References
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