MIND NETWORKS

Default Mode
Network mind wandering
TASK-POSITIVE
SALIENCE NETWORK
dmn
NETWORK network
Responsible for simple
active or passive narration
It knows what’s execution to satisfy a
sharing of experience
important to the subject request for attention planning
imagining oneself
that comes when the
foreseeing the future (projection) reminiscing
It ferries imagination into DMN goes offline
TOM: decoding intentions of the
others reality, making it
prospective cognition operational
While we are not thinking,
our brain invents stories
or situations

To be fully
functional, brain their functions are integrated
networks must
cooperate
 Our brain works through Its gaps are filled in a
topoi
narrative structures narrative way
MEMORY
STORYTELLING language gives
is incomplete
OUR BRAIN ARE neural outputs have
PROGRAMMED TO TELL unity to memories
narrative characteristic
STORIES
(according to the
subject’s culture)
we modify our
according to the
memories using
current situation
narrative ability it allows storytelling
Storytelling is
linked to adaptivity
linguistic form
producing, maintaining restoring consolidating
and transforming the congruity and maintaining tales sequences of
correlations between the between the coherent images
different aspects of an different PROJECTIONS
individual’s existence MEMORIES
relationships
events fits in between events
primary function of STRUCTURE
necessary to
EPISODIC MEMORY adapt to
NARRATIVE
SPACES
it’s possible to interpret
patterns where mental organizing and labelling THEORY OF ACTIVE behavioral patterns, interactions
scenarios blend memories through tales INFERECE and expectation according to
according to paradigm inferencial dynamics
 Default Mode plot formation
Network Accumulation of coherent the plot constitutes a model for
informations storyline decoding new informations

dmn

fragmentary informations
easier to remember because
are integrated in
de DMN is involved
coherent semantic chains
stimulates a restructuring
knowledge of the world

promote attention

The narrative context increases salience indices

makes the difference
in terms of attention generates a wide
LISTENING TO A STORY Fantasy
range of emotions

facilitates creativity
in children
CONSISTEN STORIES INCONSISTEN STORIES

> critical elements > details

< details < critical elements
 emotional
innate abilities
tom cognitive
SIMPHATY

positive interpersonal
egocentric behavior
stagnation

OXYTOCIN modulating trust in

social interactions
NARRATIVE ENDOCRIN ROLE EMPHATY reducing stress
“moral molecule”
heterocentric
work
reduction of
vicarious learning of
cognitive and emotional social realities through
Narrative transport
immersion in the story the experience of
Default Mode fantastic characters
Network
Separation between real world
transmedia
dmn and narrative world is created
explosion of fiction
our mind constantly
the prefrontal designing future trajectories detect agents in the form
cortex works and planning of preys and predators

belief is the default option

narration implies a
SUSPANSION OF CREDULITY
≠ disbelief costs in terms of
gaming activity

cognitive efforts

counterfactual trend
highly animated
 thanks to the union of
beauty for sexual and reproductive purpose
games
use of tools for functional tasks

evolution of
tales storytelling methods
sensory
is linked to the evolution of
the brain emotional
cognitive abilities ART IS BORN cognitive

aesthetic and
NARRATION cultural experience
abstract
categories precedes
takes place in the
interpersonal LANGUAGE we are physiologically affected
perspective (3rd EMBODIED MIND
person) by the narrative experience
of the individual
condensed even more the
representation
NEW GENERATION OF
mental P E C M A READERS/SPECTATORS
associations
FLOW MODEL
ability to compress indipendance of the perception
inputs into plots mind from reality can be intentionally blocked
emotions
while writing stories
cognition
immerse oneself
in fictions motor action
as users increased silent meaning
as authors bottom-up + top-down

FUNCTIONAL PACKAGE mind brain

a tale where cultural elements
have adapted to the mental
architecture of the brain environment environment