Applying functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in educational research: A systematic review

Z Zhan, Q Yang, L Luo, X Zhang - Current Psychology, 2024‏ - Springer
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has been applied in educational studies
during the past decade, arousing tremendous attention, but lack of a systematic review …

Neurocognitive poetics: methods and models for investigating the neuronal and cognitive-affective bases of literature reception

AM Jacobs - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory,
formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro) cognitive poetics has …

Caring about Dostoyevsky: the untapped potential of studying literature

RM Willems, AM Jacobs - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Should cognitive scientists and neuroscientists care about Dostoyevsky? Engaging with
fiction is a natural and rich behavior, providing a unique window onto the mind and brain …

Brain response to empathy-eliciting scenarios involving pain in incarcerated individuals with psychopathy

J Decety, LR Skelly, KA Kiehl - JAMA psychiatry, 2013‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance A marked lack of empathy is a hallmark characteristic of individuals with
psychopathy. However, neural processes associated with empathic processing have not yet …

Evoking and measuring identification with narrative characters–A linguistic cues framework

K Van Krieken, H Hoeken, J Sanders - Frontiers in psychology, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
Current research on identification with narrative characters poses two problems. First,
although identification is seen as a dynamic process of which the intensity varies during …

Digital storytelling in early childhood: Student illustrations sha** social interactions

WI O'Byrne, K Houser, R Stone, M White - Frontiers in psychology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
This study tests an instructional model designed to empower students in an early childhood
classroom as emerging digital storytellers. Educators can use digital storytelling to support …

The fictive brain: neurocognitive correlates of engagement in literature

AM Jacobs, RM Willems - Review of General Psychology, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] An EEG/ERP investigation of the development of empathy in early and middle childhood

Y Cheng, C Chen, J Decety - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Empathic arousal is the first ontogenetic building block of empathy to appear during infancy
and early childhood. As development progresses, empathic arousal becomes associated …

The power of emotional valence—from cognitive to affective processes in reading

U Altmann, IC Bohrn, O Lubrich… - Frontiers in human …, 2012‏ - frontiersin.org
The comprehension of stories requires the reader to imagine the cognitive and affective
states of the characters. The content of many stories is unpleasant, as they often deal with …

Neurocircuitry of generalized anxiety disorder in adolescents: a pilot functional neuroimaging and functional connectivity study

JR Strawn, SM Bitter, WA Weber, WJ Chu… - Depression and …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background Dysfunction of neural systems responsible for the processing of emotional
stimuli is hypothesized to be involved in the pathophysiology of generalized anxiety disorder …