Think about the last time a story moved you. Maybe it was a moment when a character faced impossible odds or made a sacrifice ...

Emily Short has an interesting response up to some comments made by Playfirst's John Welch in a recent Gamasutra article. The issue at stake? Welch's assertion that Playfirst has introduced 'narrative ...

Fiction, narrative and cognitive value constitute a dynamic triad that underpins both literary expression and human cognition. Fiction offers imaginative constructs that not only engage but also ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In order to examine the precursors to goal-based, causally coherent narratives, the fictional narratives told by 4- and 5-year-olds were ...

A traveler at heart, Brianna is a risk-taker and goal chaser. Ever since she saw her brother playing Ocarina of Time on their N64, her path was set. In 2021, she graduated from California State ...

Schmälzle, who uses neuroimaging in order to study how stories create convergent audience reactions (“which is a slightly more technical term for how stories unite us,” he said), underlined that while ...

While such narrative features as 'Nomadland' and the docu-comedy 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' lean into reality, this season's docs 'Collective,' 'My Octopus Teacher' and 'The Mole Agent' play more ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former White House Russia analyst sternly warned Republican lawmakers — and implicitly President Donald Trump — to quit pushing a “fictional” narrative that Ukraine, not Russia ...