How Shakespeare tempests the brain: Neuroimaging insights

Keidel, James L.; Davis, Philip; González-Díaz, Victorina; Martin, Clara D.; Thierry, Guillaume

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.011

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“…The methodological challenge for this perspective is immense given the complexity of the verbal materials and the focus on processes that recruit more than the usual language circuits in the brain (e.g., Keidel et al, 2013 ; Jacobs and Willems, 2017 ). However, recent developments in QNA methods and machine learning, as well as in fMRI data analyses promise rapid progress in this regard.…”

Section: The Neurocognitive Poetics Perspectivementioning

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Quantifying the Beauty of Words: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective

Jacobs

2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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In this paper I would like to pave the ground for future studies in Computational Stylistics and (Neuro-)Cognitive Poetics by describing procedures for predicting the subjective beauty of words. A set of eight tentative word features is computed via Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) and a novel metric for quantifying word beauty, the aesthetic potential is proposed. Application of machine learning algorithms fed with this QNA data shows that a classifier of the decision tree family excellently learns to split words into beautiful vs. ugly ones. The results shed light on surface and semantic features theoretically relevant for affective-aesthetic processes in literary reading and generate quantitative predictions for neuroaesthetic studies of verbal materials.

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Section: The Neurocognitive Poetics Perspectivementioning

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Quantifying the Beauty of Words: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective

Jacobs

2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…The dialogic interactions fostered by DLG led participants to collectively define what love means to them. They did not only draw their ideas from high quality literary pieces, which promote higher order thinking (Keidel et al 2013), but also brought their own personal experience and built on each other's thoughts. The egalitarian dialogues children exchange in DLG promote critical reflections about relationships which emerge in the context of classic literature.…”

Section: The Emergence Of Lod Toward Nonviolent Partners and Relationmentioning

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The emergence of the language of desire toward nonviolent relationships during the dialogic literary gatherings

Aguileta

Torras-Gómez

García-Carrión

et al. 2020

Language and Education

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The dialogic nature of human beings has widely been argued in the scientific literature. Language, as a cultural and psychological tool, has the potential to construct social meanings, including those related to love, attraction and desire. In these emotional dimensions of the self, people use 'the language of desire' , defined as the capacity of language to raise attraction and be desired, while the 'language of ethics' is used to describe what is 'good' and 'ethical'. This article examines a dialogic intervention with 11-13-year-old children named Dialogic Literary Gatherings and explores its affordances to articulate both forms of language toward nonviolent models. 28 sessions from two elementary schools were analyzed, along with three focus groups with students. Main findings outline that dialogic features enable the emergence of the language of desire in combination to the language of ethics toward nonviolent relationships. Language is the main tool through which human beings interact and exist in society. It allows us to learn, to go further and deeper in thought, learning and development (Bruner 1996; Vygotsky 1978). There is a wide spectrum of discourses and ways in which people communicate to construct realities and those can either perpetuate oppression or transform our relationships into more egalitarian and democratic ones (Freire 1997, 2018). Hence, the discourses in which people are socialized shape our thoughts, values and world views. Especially important are those discourses related to love, desire and attraction in early adolescence since they will play a critical role in their socialization toward egalitarian or violent relationships (Gómez 2015). In particular, research has shown the existence of what has been defined as a coercive dominant discourse. This discourse, which establishes a link between attraction and violence, might affect young people's socialization leading toward engaging in power or violent relationships (Puigvert et al. 2019; Racionero-Plaza et al. 2018). Under the influence of such discourse, many of the messages youth receive and produce can be articulated under two categories defined as the language of desire (LoD)-referred

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“…To The latter's activity was triggered by Shakespearean functional shifts (e.g., "I believed you were a saint; you have unhappied me by showing a bad nature") that required individuals to reason about a familiar word, and its context, in a novel way (Keidel et al, 2013). Specifically, sensitive to the poetic texts in that study was a cluster of voxels that spanned from the right dorsal caudate to dACC, and further to medial and lateral anterior PFC.…”

Section: Poetry In the Brainmentioning

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The Fictive Brain: Neurocognitive Correlates of Engagement in Literature

Jacobs

Willems

2018

Review of General Psychology

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Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. The brain processes which play a role in the mental construction of fiction worlds and the related engagement with fictional characters, remain largely unknown. The authors discuss the neurocognitive poetics model (Jacobs, 2015a) of literary reading specifying the likely neuronal correlates of several key processes in literary reading, namely inference and situation model building, immersion, mental simulation and imagery, figurative language and style, and the issue of distinguishing fact from fiction. An overview of recent work on these key processes is followed by a discussion of methodological challenges in studying the brain bases of fiction processing.

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How Shakespeare tempests the brain: Neuroimaging insights

Cited by 60 publications

References 30 publications

Quantifying the Beauty of Words: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective

Quantifying the Beauty of Words: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective

The emergence of the language of desire toward nonviolent relationships during the dialogic literary gatherings

The Fictive Brain: Neurocognitive Correlates of Engagement in Literature

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