In this state-of-the-art review, I start with an illustrative example of behavioral data collected
during the reading of a love poem reflecting one of many aspects that form the object of the …

Poetry evokes emotions. It does so, according to the theory we present, from three sorts of
simulation. They each can prompt emotions, which are communications both within the brain …

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 …

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 …

Two computational studies provide different sentiment analyses for text segments
(eg,“fearful” passages) and figures (eg,“Voldemort”) from the Harry Potter books …

Most language users agree that some words sound harsh (eg grotesque) whereas others
sound soft and pleasing (eg lagoon). While this prominent feature of human language has …

Narrative absorption is an umbrella term for a specific mental state that, in general, can be
described as altered embodied, cognitive, and emotional processes of being invested into …

This paper describes a corpus of about 3,000 English literary texts with about 250 million
words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and …

If the words of natural human language possess a universal positivity bias, as assumed by
famous Pollyanna hypothesis and computationally confirmed for large text corpora in …

In this article we investigate structural differences between “literary” metaphors created by
renowned poets and “nonliterary” ones imagined by non-professional authors from Katz et …