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Mind Wandering, Attention, and the Reception of Fictional Worlds book cover

1st Edition

Mind Wandering, Attention, and the Reception of Fictional Worlds

By Francesca Arnavas, Mattia Bellini, Dezső Németh Copyright 2027
144 Pages
by Routledge

Is a wandering mind just a defocused mind? Or can wandering also be a creative mental activity? What is the complex relationship between mind wandering and attention? How is this relationship articulated when we encounter a fictional world? And does our mind pay attention and wander in the same way, when the encountered fictional world comes from a book and when it is found in a digital artefact?... Read more

1.     Hovering and Drifting: Re-thinking Mind Wandering in Fiction, 2. The Adaptive Face of Distraction: Cognitive and Neural Benefits of Mind Wandering in Statistical Learning, 3. Getting Lost in a Book: Mind Wandering, Attention, and Fantasy from the Perspective of Literary Studies, 4. Exploring the Attentional Pendulum: Mind Wandering and Flow in Video Games and Interactive Digital Narratives, 5. Wandering Thoughts, Fictional Streams: A Dialogue among Three Disciplines, Conclusion, Index 

Biography

Francesca Arnavas is Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Institute of Cultural Research at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Mattia Bellini is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France and Knowledge Transfer Project Manager at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Dezső Németh is a Directeur de recherche at INSERM, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, France, and Gran Canaria Cognitive Research Center, Universidad del Atlántico Medio, Las Palmas, Spain.

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