THE COGNITIVE DIMENSION IN THE LITERARY TEXT PERCEPTION
THE COGNITIVE DIMENSION IN THE LITERARY TEXT PERCEPTION

Summary/Abstract: The cognitive analysis of the literary works opened new pathways to integration of knowledge, developed by cognitive sciences (including neurosciences) in understanding artistic creativity. This approach tries to understand the way the perception of written text could have effects on human mind. Cognitive poetics is adapted to the research dynamic in numerous domains and in the same time it is determined by the appearance of some novel creative environments. The second half of the twentieth century assisted to the birth of a new paradigms in psychology: cognitive sciences, that focused the attention on the mental states and processes, more than on the behavior observed from outside. It has influenced quite fast some linguists that longed for more comprehensive vision of the language than the classical search for algorithms.

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