Cognitive Science, Humanities and the Arts

Those new to cognitive science might want to look at the

• Starter Kit of Readings in Cognitive Science

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• "The Poetic Image: Iconic Relations between Form and Meaning in Spanish Poetry."
  (Dissertation-in-progress by Adela Robles-Sáez.)

• "Reader Response Update."
  (Report on research in progress by David Miall and Don Kuiken.)

• Temporal Theory and Poetics.
  (Three books-in-progress by Richard Cureton.)

• "Opaque Enigmas."
  (Dissertation-in-progress by Craig Hamilton.)

• Neuroanatomy, Theory of Mind, and Non-Literal Utterances.
  (Research in progress by Hiram Brownell and Ellen Winner.)

• "Pragmatic Constraints on Narrative Processing: Actants and Anaphora Resolution."
  (Essay-in-progress by David Herman.)

• Cognitive Fictions.
  (Recent book by Joseph Tabbi, with reviews and responses.)

• Reuven Tsur, Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics
  (Reviewed by Beth Bradburn)

• Raymond Gibbs, The Poetics of Mind (off-site)
  (Reviewed by Mark Turner)

• David Rubin, Memory in Oral Traditions
  (Reviewed by Alan Richardson)

• Mark Turner, The Literary Mind
  (Reviewed by Alan Richardson)

• Elaine Scarry, Dreaming by the Book
  (Reviewed by Ellen Spolsky)

• George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh (off-site)
  (Reviewed by Francis Steen)

• Mary Crane, Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (off-site)
  (Reviewed by Nancy Selleck)

• Bridging the Gap

  (An important issue of the Stanford Electronic Humanities Review with a "target" essay on literary interpretation and cognitive science by Herbert Simon and an array of invited responses.)

• Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online

  (On-line texts and numerous links related to the "cognitive science of metaphor.")

• The Cognitive Poetics Project

  (Information on the work of Reuven Tsur at Tel Aviv University; includes links to several on-line texts by Tsur.)

• Cognitive Science, Humanities and the Arts

  (A resource collection and collaborative bibliography including subsections on film, literature, the fine arts, as well as listings of journals and websites.)

• CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies

  (An experimental site devoted to exploring the relevance of cognitive science to literary and cultural studies, and to the development of cognitive cultural theory).

• Constructions of the Mind

  (Another valuable issue of the Stanford Electronic Humanities Review featuring a number of original essays on artificial intelligence and the humanities.)

• Inside the Skull House: A Neuropoesis

  (An introduction to as well as a set of literary and visual meditations on brain anatomy and function, with numerous links, nested definitions, and other hypertextual features, created by Joel Weishaus.)

• I.P.S.A. (Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts)

  (Mainly devoted to psychoanalytical approaches, but open to cognitive and neuroscientific perspectives as well. Hosts PSYART, a "hyperlink journal for the psychological study of the arts.")

• Literary Universals Project

  (A website devoted to the study of literary universals--helpfully defined on the site by Patrick Hogan--hosted by the University of Palermo.)

• Mark Turner's Home Page

  (Includes recent texts by Turner as well as information on his research program in "conceptual blending" and links to related projects and sites.)

• Mental Metaphor Databank

  (A useful compilation of various metaphors used to figure mind and cognition, drawn from literary and other sources.)

• The Pre-History of Cognitive Science

  (Multi-indexed summaries of Burton, Hobbes, Berkeley, and Locke as theorists helping to establish a space for cognitive science.)

• Reader Response Research

  (Abstracts and e-texts representing David Miall and Don Kuiken's work at the intersection of literary studies and cognitive psychology.)

• rivista di filologia cognitiva

  (An international online journal devoted to cognitive philology--including cognitive metrics, narratology, semantics, and phonology--based at the Università di Roma.)

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