Towards a neurocognitive model of literary reading

30 marzo 2012
ore 10.00

• prof. Arthur Jacobs -  “Languages of Emotion” Cluster Dahlem Institue for Neuroimaging of Emotion (D.I.N.E.) Freie Universität  Berlin 

Abstract

Standard psychological models of reading focus on cognitive processes and remain silent with regard to the contribution of affective and aesthetic processes to the act of reading. In this paper we present a new general neurocognitive model of literary reading (Jacobs, 2011) which integrates elements of rhetorics, reception aesthetics, cognitive poetics, and psychonarratology with neurolinguistic approaches to reading. It allows prequantitative predictions concerning a variety of neuronal, cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes involved in reading prose. In the light of empirical data from the literature and own results from neurocognitive studies within the cluster of excellence “Languages of Emotion” of the FU Berlin (Bohrn et al., 2012), we discuss key hypotheses of the model, in particular the role of right - hemispheric networks for processing figurative text elements, the differential effects of fore – and backgrounding elements on the mental processes underlying reading, and the conditions for an “aesthetic  trajectory” in reading prose.

Bohrn, I., Altmann, U., Lubrich, O., Menninghaus, W., & Jacobs, A.M. (2012). Old Proverbs in new Skins ‐ An fMRI Study on Defamiliarization. Frontiers in Language Science, in revision.

Jacobs, A.M. (2011). Neurokognitive Poetik: Elemente eines neurokognitiven Modells des literarischen Lesens. (Neurocognitive poetics: Elements of a neurocognitive model of literary reading). In: R. Schrott & A. Jacobs, Gehirn und Gedicht: Wie wir unsere Wirklichkeiten konstruieren, München: Hanser.

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