Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau
List of John Benjamins publications in which Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau is involved.
Articles
2020 Fiction effects on social cognition: Varying narrative engagement with cognitive load Scientific Study of Literature 10:1, pp. 64–97 | Article
Social cognition, the skillset involved in interpreting the cognitive and affective states of others, is essential for navigating the social world. Research has indicated that reading about fictional social content may support social cognitive abilities; however, the processes underpinning these… read more
2014 Insight, interactivity and materiality Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture, Malafouris, Lambros, Chris Gosden and Karenleigh A. Overmann (eds.), pp. 27–44 | Article
The popular iconography of insight casts a thinker as he or she uncoils from a Rodin pose and a bulb that lights a world hitherto hidden. By and large, these features of folk mythology capture and guide how psychologists conduct research on insight: Mental processes — some of which may be… read more
2014 Diagrams, jars, and matchsticks: A systemicist’s toolkit Diagrammatic Reasoning, Fusaroli, Riccardo and Kristian Tylén (eds.), pp. 187–205 | Article
Participants in cognitive psychology experiments on reasoning and problem solving are commonly sequestered: Efforts are made to impoverish the physical context in which the problem is presented, decoupling people from the richer and modifiable environment that naturally instantiates it outside the… read more