The Neurology of Narrative

Young, Kay; Saver, Jeffrey L

doi:10.1353/sub.2001.0020

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“…Additional problems with autobiographical memory in schizophrenia (122) are disruptive for the formation of self-narrative. Related to this, Bruner (123) points out that "dysnarrativia" (encountered for example in Korsakoff's syndrome or Alzheimer's disease) is destructive not only for self understanding generated in narrative (see 124), but also for the ability to understand others' behavior and their emotional experiences.…”

Section: Schizophrenia and Itmentioning

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Social cognition and psychopathology: a critical overview

Gallagher

Varga

2015

World Psychiatry

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The philosophical and interdisciplinary debate about the nature of social cognition, and the processes involved, has important implications for psychiatry. On one account, mindreading depends on making theoretical inferences about another person's mental states based on knowledge of folk psychology, the so-called "theory theory" (TT). On a different account, "simulation theory" (ST), mindreading depends on simulating the other's mental states within one's own mental or motor system. A third approach, "interaction theory" (IT), looks to embodied processes (involving movement, gesture, facial expression, vocal intonation, etc.) and the dynamics of intersubjective interactions (joint attention, joint action, and processes not confined to an individual system) in highly contextualized situations to explain social cognition, and disruptions of these processes in some psychopathological conditions. In this paper, we present a brief summary of these three theoretical frameworks (TT, ST, IT). We then focus on impaired social abilities in autism and schizophrenia from the perspective of the three approaches. We discuss the limitations of such approaches in the scientific studies of these and other pathologies, and we close with a short reflection on the future of the field. In this regard we argue that, to the extent that TT, ST and IT offer explanations that capture different (limited) aspects of social cognition, a pluralist approach might be best.

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Section: Schizophrenia and Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social cognition and psychopathology: a critical overview

Gallagher

Varga

2015

World Psychiatry

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“…This way of describing the narrative style might strike some as being quite a general style of thinking in that it could conceivably include the paradigmatic style too. This seems to be the view espoused by cognitive neuroscientists Young and Saver (2001), who write: ''[n]arrative is the inescapable frame of human experience. While we can be trained to think in geometrical shapes, patterns of sounds, poetry, movement, syllogisms, what predominates or fundamentally constitutes our consciousness is the understanding of self and world in story' ' (p. 72).…”

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If this is our mathematics, what are our stories?

Healy

Sinclair

2007

Int J Comput Math Learning

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This paper sets out to examine how narrative modes of thinking play a part in the claiming of mathematical territories as our own, in navigating mathematical landscapes and in conversing with the mathematical beings that inhabit them. We begin by exploring what constitutes the narrative mode, drawing principally on four characteristics identified by Bruner and considering how these characteristics manifest themselves in the activities of mathematicians. Using these characteristics, we then analyse a number of examples from our work with expressive technologies; we seek to identify the narrative in the interactions of the learners with different computational microworlds. By reflecting on the learners' stories, we highlight how particular features, common across the microworlds-motion, colour, sound and the like-provided the basis for both the physical and psychological grounding of the behaviour of the mathematically constrained computational objects. In this way, students constructed and used narratives that involved situating mathematical activities in familiar contexts, whilst simultaneously expressing these activities in ways which-at least potentially-transcend the particularities of the story told.

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“…When people lose the capacity to narrate their biographies, as is the case with some brain injury victims, they have in effect "lost their selves" (Young & Saver, 2001). Narrating a self involves selectively emphasizing, ignoring, and interpreting often-contradictory biographical experiences in ways that produce a coherent story (Polkinghorne, 1988).…”

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Transsexuals' Sexual Stories

Schrock

Reid

2006

Arch Sex Behav

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When viewed through a popular cultural lens, male-to-female transsexuals' sexual biographies can appear to indicate male transvestitism, heterosexuality, or homosexuality rather than transsexuality. How do transsexuals subvert such implications and construct transsexual identities? Drawing on K. Plummer's (1995) approach to sexual stories, we examine how nine male-to-female transsexuals construct their sexual pasts to accomplish what sociologists call "identity work." Interviewees used gendered sexual scripts, cultural discourse on the biological basis of male sexual arousal, and a discourse of therapeutic individualism to narratively defetishize autoerotic crossdressing, queer straight sex, refashion transvestic sex, and straighten out gay sex.

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The Neurology of Narrative

Cited by 96 publications

References 6 publications

Social cognition and psychopathology: a critical overview

Social cognition and psychopathology: a critical overview

If this is our mathematics, what are our stories?

Transsexuals' Sexual Stories

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