Fictional information presents a unique challenge to the developing child. Children must learn when it is appropriate to transfer information from the fictional space to the real world and what contextual cues should be considered in this decision. The current research explores children’s causal inferences between fictional representations and reality by examining their developing sensitivity t...

In Hungarian variants of some fairy tale types (especially ATU 315, 707, 725) the operation of a peculiar dream narrative can be observed: the characters use an embedded dream narrative to communicate information. The agent of knowledge conveys information to a mediating person and in doing so (s)he also governs that when the mediator conveys information to the actual addressee (recipient), the...

Brazilian regionalist literature and popular narratives since colonial times have too often depicted the semi-arid environment as being too harsh for femininity. Women have been constructed with masculine traits, as is the case for a myriad of fictional characters and real historical figures. Perhaps the most prominent cases are Maria Bonita, wife and member of the band of Lampião, the most fam...

The rich expressivity provided by the cognitive event calculus (CEC) knowledge representation framework allows for reasoning over deeply nested beliefs, desires, intentions, and so on. I put CEC to the test by attempting to model the complex reasoning and deceptive planning used in an episode of the popular television show Breaking Bad. CEC is used to represent the knowledge used by reasoners c...

Experiments have shown that compared to fictional texts, readers read factual texts faster and have better memory for described situations. Reading fictional texts on the other hand seems to improve memory for exact wordings and expressions. Most of these studies used a "newspaper" vs. "literature" comparison. In the present study, we investigated the effect of reader's expectation to whether i...

This article explores the place of minor characters in Disney’s animated features. More specifically, it proposes that mark an aesthetic rupture by breaking with mode hyperrealism has come to be associated studio’s feature-length films. Drawing on character theory within literary studies and research into film performance, suggests inherent ‘flatness’ ‘figurativeness’ their performance styles c...

This paper claims that the authors of Japanese wine manga The Drops God were able to create a convincing professional world by using real-life domain experts as fictional characters. In fiction, device known metalepsis involves either illusion character entering our or introduction real people into narrative. features metaleptic movements in both directions. builds upon previous FASP research w...