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Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to construct contexts, how to draw inferences and how to identify the key parts of a story. Writers can skilfully convey physical sensations, prompt emotional states, effect moral responses and even alter the readers' attitudes. Mind, Brain and Narrative examines the psychological and neuroscientific evidence for the mechanisms which underlie narrative comprehension. The authors explore the scientific...

A distinguished psychologist presents a lively and accessible exploration of how the human mind works. Discussing such intriguing topics as memory, learning, reasoning, and problem solving, Anthony J. Sanford describes the most important and recent theories and experiments relevant to these mental processes. "This book is an excellent introduction to the structure of knowledge. It is very readable, clear, and illuminating without being highly technical."-R.L. Gregory, University of Bristol "The book is impressively clear and written at an appropriate level for the intelligent layman."-Andrew...

This book is an exploration of human understanding, from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, biology and theology. The six contributors are among the most internationally eminent in their fields. Though scholarly, the writing is non-technical. No background in psychology, philosophy or theology is presumed. No other interdisciplinary work has undertaken to explore the nature of human understanding. This book is unique, and highly significant for anyone interested in or concerned about the human condition.

Many researchers in psychology have attempted to capture the meaning of quantities by relating them to scales of quantity. First published in 1993, the book explores this idea in detail and shows how these expressions also serve to control attention and to convey information about the expectations held by those involved in the communication.