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The Dilemma of Suspense: Neuronarratology, Cognitive Neurosciences, and Computer Technology

The Dilemma of Suspense: Neuronarratology, Cognitive Neurosciences, and Computer Technology

Sara Uboldi, Stefano Calabrese
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 11
ISBN13: 9781522504320|ISBN10: 152250432X|EISBN13: 9781522504337
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0432-0.ch012
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Uboldi, Sara, and Stefano Calabrese. "The Dilemma of Suspense: Neuronarratology, Cognitive Neurosciences, and Computer Technology." Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology, edited by Takashi Ogata and Taisuke Akimoto, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 322-332. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0432-0.ch012

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Uboldi, S. & Calabrese, S. (2016). The Dilemma of Suspense: Neuronarratology, Cognitive Neurosciences, and Computer Technology. In T. Ogata & T. Akimoto (Eds.), Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology (pp. 322-332). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0432-0.ch012

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Uboldi, Sara, and Stefano Calabrese. "The Dilemma of Suspense: Neuronarratology, Cognitive Neurosciences, and Computer Technology." In Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology, edited by Takashi Ogata and Taisuke Akimoto, 322-332. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0432-0.ch012

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Abstract

The new generation Narratology shows a renewed heuristic scenario, involving an intense dialogue among Humanities, Cognitive Neuroscience and Computer Technology. The case of suspense is emblematic: the pleasure that suspense exercises on the human mind can be precisely explained by identifying the mechanisms of reward provided by neurological and imaging studies. At the same time, patterns of automatic generation of narrations highlight the profound implications of a heated debate between Narratology and Computer Technology, in order to understand the processes of reception and inference during the narrative immersion in storyworlds. At the end of their overview on of a cross-disciplinary approach to suspense analysis, the authors report a case study considered of interest, by a group of researched, called Liquid Narrative Group, of North Caroline State University.

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