Narrative simulation of social experiences in naturalistic context – A neurocinematic approach
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2023-09-09
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Neuropsychologia, Volume 188, pp. 1-11
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Narratives may be regarded as simulations of everyday social situations. They are key to studying the human mind in socio-culturally determined contexts as they allow anchoring to the common ground of embodied and environmentally-engaged cognition. Here we review recent findings from naturalistic neuroscience on neural functions in conditions that mimic lifelike situations. We will focus particularly on neurocinematics, a research field that applies mediated narratives as stimuli for neuroimaging experiments. During the last two decades, this paradigm has contributed to an accumulation of insights about the neural underpinnings of behavior and sense-making in various narratively contextualized situations particularly pertaining to socio-emotional encounters. One of the key questions in neurocinematics is, how do intersubjectively synchronized brain activations relate to subjective experiences? Another question we address is how to bring natural contexts into experimental studies. Seeking to respond to both questions, we suggest neurocinematic studies to examine three manifestations of the same phenomenon side-by-side: subjective experiences of narrative situations, unfolding of narrative stimulus structure, and neural processes that co-constitute the experience. This approach facilitates identifying experientially meaningful activity patterns in the brain and points out what they may mean in relation to shared and communicable contents. Via rich-featured and temporally contextualized narrative stimuli, neurocinematics attempts to contribute to emerging holistic theories of neural dynamics and connectomics explaining typical and atypical interindividual variability.Description
Funding Information: The work by PT and MK has been supported by the EU Mobilitas Pluss Top Researcher grant ( MOBTT90 ) by Estonian Research Council . JS was supported by the Academy of Finland (grants #325981, 328954 ). Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors
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Atypical neural or behavioral characteristics, Autism, Context, EEG, Embodied mind approach, fMRI, Free viewing paradigm, Holism, MEG, Multidisciplinary, Narrative sensemaking, Naturalistic neuroscience, Neurocinematics, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Neuroimaging, Situatedness, Social cognition, Virtual reality, VR
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Tikka, P, Kaipainen, M & Salmi, J 2023, ' Narrative simulation of social experiences in naturalistic context – A neurocinematic approach ', Neuropsychologia, vol. 188, 108654, pp. 1-11 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108654