What Can Narratives Tell Us About the Neural Ba…

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• Author: Hongmi Lee
• Full Title: What Can Narratives Tell Us About the Neural Bases of Human Memory?
• Category: #articles
• Summary:: Narratives, such as stories and movies, play a significant role in understanding human memory and brain function. They help researchers study how memories are encoded and recalled, revealing interactions in the brain’s default mode network. Recent advancements in neuroimaging have shown that narratives can enhance memory retention and facilitate the sharing of experiences between individuals.
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Highlights

• In this review, we define a narrative as the verbal or nonverbal discourse of an event or a sequence of inter-related events, either fictional or nonfictional. (View Highlight)
• Many psychologists have observed that communication between people frequently takes a narrative form, and that communication and memory are intimately linked [1,59]. Hirst and Echterhoff [60] take the view that remembering is most often an act of communication; Mahr and Csibra [61] propose that a primary function of episodic memory is to enable communication of the nature of our beliefs about past events. Questions about inter-person communication of memories necessarily involve multiple persons; here, the ISC approach is particularly appropriate, as it allows researchers to study inter-brain dynamics during naturalistic acts of communication. (View Highlight)