1 Neuroscience and Narrative Theory
Language, the Brain, and Cognitive Narratology
Figuration in Narration and Cognition
Lived Worlds and Narrative Worldmaking
Natural and Unnatural Narratives
2 The Temporality of Narrative and the Decentered Brain
Anticipation and Retrospection in Stories and the Brain
Temporalities of Integration in Narration, Cognition, and Reading
The Neuroscience of Memory and Forgetting
The Temporality of Intersubjectivity and Emotion
3 Action, Embodied Cognition, and the As-If of Narrative Figuration
The Action-Perception Circuit and the Figurations of Narrative
Grounded Cognition, Graded Grounding, and the Paradoxes of Simulation
Embodied and Disembodied Metaphor
Interactions of Action in Narrative and Narration
4 Neuroscience and the Social Powers of Narrative
Empathy, Identification, and the Doubling of Self and Other
Collaboration, Shared Intentionality, and Coupled Brains
Distributed Cognition and the Social Life of Stories
Stories as a Cognitive Archive: What Is It Like to Be Conscious?