Enacting Embodied Events in Narrative Processing

Enacting a social ecology: radically embodied intersubjectivity

Embodied approaches to cognitive science frequently describe the mind as "world-involving," indicating complementary and interdependent relationships between an agent and its environment. The precise nature of the environment is frequently left ill-described, however, and provides a challenge for such approaches, particularly, it is noted here, for the enactive approach which emphasizes this co...

Processing Causality in Narrative Events: Temporal Order Matters

Embodied Simulation Theory: Imagination and Narrative

The timely and thought-provoking essay by Siri Hustvedt provides a fascinating account of the relationship between imagination and memory and discusses this relationship against the background of different disciplines like psychoanalysis, cognitive neuroscience, and phenomenology. Hustvedt sheds new light from the inside on the process of artistic creativity by emphasizing that the bodily affec...

Phenomenology of embodied implicit and narrative knowing

Purpose – Seeks to argue for a phenomenology of embodied implicit and narrative knowing in organizations and to show the significance of experiential dimensions of implicit and narrative knowing and their mutual interrelations in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – For this the advanced phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty will be used as a framework for clarifying the relational status of t...

Relating Narrative Events in Translation

About two decades ago, Ruth Berman and I set out to explore the development of “the ability to relate events in narrative” (Berman 1988; Berman & Slobin 1987, 1994). We devoted a great deal of research attention to a seemingly simple task: oral narratives elicited by a picture storybook created for children, Frog, where are you? (Mayer 1969), originally discovered as a research tool by Michael ...