Objective Clinical assessment of auditory attention in patients with disorders of consciousness is often limited by motor impairment. Here, we employ intersubject correlations among electroencephalography responses to naturalistic speech in order to assay auditory attention among patients and healthy controls. Methods Electroencephalographic data were recorded from 20 subjects with disorders ...

Philosophical accounts of narrative fiction can be loosely divided into two types. Participant accounts argue that some sort of simulation, or 1st person perspective taking plays a critical role in our engagement with narratives. Observer accounts argue to the contrary that we primarily engage narrative fictions from a 3rd person point of view, as either side participants or outside observers. ...

This study of The Hunger Artist explores how signs and symbols play a significant role in bringing the structured imagination of Kafka’s psyche and signification process on the surface of the narrative. As various signs encode different representations of experiences and the source of these representations is not only the subconscious and unconscious selves of the author and reader but also the...

This thesis represents a planner based approach to the application of video semantics and theme representation to the automated editing of visual stories at the level of events. The research draws on film theory (in order to define methods to perform automated editing, to model the fundamental units of the image and the conceptual relationships between image, shot and sequence); on narrative an...

Narrative data-to-text systems seem to acknowledge causal relations as important. However, they play only a secondary role in their document planners and their identification relies mostly on domain knowledge. This paper proposes an assisted temporal data interpretation model by narrative generation in which narratives are structured with the help of a mix of automatically mined and manually de...

The style of narrative news affects how it is interpreted and received by readers. Two key stylistic characteristics of narrative text are point of view and diegesis: respectively, whether the narrative recounts events personally or impersonally, and whether the narrator is involved in the events of the story. Although central to the interpretation and reception of news, and of narratives more ...

Concerns with social justice have been traditionally associated with a modernist concept of the individual whose actions express an underlying, essential and unified self. This paper compares the usefulness of two methodologies (post-structuralist and narrative) that are based on a rejection of identity of a unified self and compares their usefulness in relation to the development of a social j...

INTRODUCTION There is increasing international interest in universal, health promoting services for pregnancy and the first three years of life and the concept of proportionate universalism. Drawing on a narrative review of literature, this paper explores mechanisms by which such services might contribute to health improvement and reducing health inequalities. OBJECTIVES Through a narrative r...

The creation of a literary biography requires an awareness both of how we construct what we believe we ‘know’ about a writer, and how the stories we adopt change our reading of their works. Research into the sources used to construct Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s biographies supports the conclusion that when writers can no longer create their own stories, those created about them are necessarily ...