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Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection (2022)
Journal Article
Bernini, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2022). Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 68(4), 639-667. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0045

This article promotes the idea that current cognitive models of mind wandering and inner speech can help us better understanding the phenomenological constituents of what Joyce calls “the mystery of the conscious” as simulated by modernist literary i... Read More about Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection.

Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations (2022)
Book Chapter
Bernini, M. (2022). Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations. In B. Alderson-Day, A. Woods, & C. Fernyhough (Eds.), Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (108-116). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898388.003.0013

Within the psychological and social sciences, phenomenological reports are mostly either analysed to identify patterns that could fit a model or coded for quantitative or qualitative analysis, rather than treated as (more or less narrative) texts to... Read More about Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations.

A Panting Consciousness: Beckett, Breath and Biocognitive Feedback (2021)
Book Chapter
Bernini, M. (2021). A Panting Consciousness: Beckett, Breath and Biocognitive Feedback. In C. Saunders, D. Fuller, & J. Macnaughton (Eds.), The Life of Breath, Classical to Contemporary: Literature, Culture, and Medicine (435-459). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_21

Booming Western interest in mindfulness and meditation has significantly mainstreamed breath and breathing practices, where focussed breathing is taken to be conducive to novel psychological states. Thanks to the regulation of breathing patterns, pat... Read More about A Panting Consciousness: Beckett, Breath and Biocognitive Feedback.

'Processing Speech and Thoughts During Silent Reading: Direct Reference Effects for Speech by Fictional Characters in Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex and a Theory-of-Mind Network. (2020)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Moffatt, J., Bernini, M., Mitrenga, K., Yao, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2020). 'Processing Speech and Thoughts During Silent Reading: Direct Reference Effects for Speech by Fictional Characters in Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex and a Theory-of-Mind Network. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(9), 1637-1653. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01571

Processing Speech and Thoughts during Silent Reading: Direct Reference Effects for Speech by Fictional Characters in Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex and a Theory-of-Mind Network (2020)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Moffatt, J., Bernini, M., Mitrenga, K., Yao, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2020). Processing Speech and Thoughts during Silent Reading: Direct Reference Effects for Speech by Fictional Characters in Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex and a Theory-of-Mind Network. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(9), 1637-1653. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01571

Stories transport readers into vivid imaginative worlds, but understanding how readers create such worlds—populating them with characters, objects, and events—presents serious challenges across disciplines. Auditory imagery is thought to play a promi... Read More about Processing Speech and Thoughts during Silent Reading: Direct Reference Effects for Speech by Fictional Characters in Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex and a Theory-of-Mind Network.

Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations? (2019)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., Watson, A., Bernini, M., Moseley, P., & Alderson-Day, B. (2019). Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations?. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1665. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01665

Interacting with imaginary companions (ICs) is now considered a natural part of childhood for many children, and has been associated with a range of positive developmental outcomes. Recent research has explored how the phenomenon of ICs in childhood... Read More about Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations?.

Affording Innerscapes: Dreams, Introspective Imagery and the Narrative Exploration of Personal Geographies (2018)
Journal Article
Bernini, M. (2018). Affording Innerscapes: Dreams, Introspective Imagery and the Narrative Exploration of Personal Geographies. Frontiers of Narrative Studies, 4(2), 291-311. https://doi.org/10.1515/fns-2018-0024

The essay presents an interdisciplinary theory of what it will call “innerscapes”: artefactual representations of the mind as a spatially extended world. By bringing examples of innerscapes from literature (Kafka’s short story The Bridge), radio play... Read More about Affording Innerscapes: Dreams, Introspective Imagery and the Narrative Exploration of Personal Geographies.

Narrative and Cognitive Modeling: Insights From Beckett Exploring Mind's Complexity (2018)
Book Chapter
Bernini, M. (2018). Narrative and Cognitive Modeling: Insights From Beckett Exploring Mind's Complexity. In R. Walsh, & S. Stepney (Eds.), Narrating complexity (233-251). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64714-2_17

Complex systems exacerbate a common problem for scientific enquiry: the difficulty of creating models able to discriminate fundamental elements or patterns from random behaviours or corollary components in the event or process at issue. This chapter... Read More about Narrative and Cognitive Modeling: Insights From Beckett Exploring Mind's Complexity.

Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences (2017)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Bernini, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences. Consciousness and Cognition, 49, 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.003

Readers often describe vivid experiences of voices and characters in a manner that has been likened to hallucination. Little is known, however, of how common such experiences are, nor the individual differences they may reflect. Here we present the r... Read More about Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences.

The Opacity of Fictional Minds: Transparency, Interpretive Cognition and the Exceptionality Thesis (2016)
Book Chapter
Bernini, M. (2016). The Opacity of Fictional Minds: Transparency, Interpretive Cognition and the Exceptionality Thesis. In P. Garratt (Ed.), The cognitive humanities : embodied mind in literature and culture (35-54). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59329-0_3

Within cognitive science and narrative theory, the ‘transparency of the mind’ is a shared optical image to describe the accessibility of cognitive processes and phenomenological experiences. This seeming terminological convergence, however, conceals... Read More about The Opacity of Fictional Minds: Transparency, Interpretive Cognition and the Exceptionality Thesis.

Crawling Creating Creatures: On Beckett's Liminal Minds (2015)
Journal Article
Bernini, M. (2015). Crawling Creating Creatures: On Beckett's Liminal Minds. European Journal of English Studies, 19(1), 39-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2015.1004916

The continuity and contiguity between animal and human beings in Beckett’s work has been the subject of sustained critical attention. The recurring dehumanisation or degeneration of his characters’ mental faculties and behaviours has largely been ana... Read More about Crawling Creating Creatures: On Beckett's Liminal Minds.

Supersizing narrative theory: on intention, material agency, and extended mind-workers (2014)
Journal Article
Bernini, M. (2014). Supersizing narrative theory: on intention, material agency, and extended mind-workers. Style (Fayetteville), 48(3), 349-366. https://doi.org/10.5325/style.48.3.349

In recent years, cognitive science has progressively entered the epoch of “4E” cognition,” in which the mind is considered as embedded, enacted, embodied and extended. However, among these second-generation perspectives, the extended mind theory (Cla... Read More about Supersizing narrative theory: on intention, material agency, and extended mind-workers.

Interdisciplinarity as Cognitive Integration: Auditory verbal Hallucinations as a Case study (2014)
Journal Article
Bernini, M., & Woods, A. (2014). Interdisciplinarity as Cognitive Integration: Auditory verbal Hallucinations as a Case study. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 5(5), 603-612. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1305

In this article, we advocate a bottom-up direction for the methodological modeling of interdisciplinary research based on concrete interactions among individuals within interdisciplinary projects. Drawing on our experience in Hearing the Voice (a cro... Read More about Interdisciplinarity as Cognitive Integration: Auditory verbal Hallucinations as a Case study.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2014)
Journal Article
Woods, A., Jones, N., Bernini, M., Callard, F., Alderson-Day, B., Badcock, J., …Fernyhough, C. (2014). Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 40(Suppl 4), S246-S254. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu003

Despite the recent proliferation of scientific, clinical, and narrative accounts of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), the phenomenology of voice hearing remains opaque and undertheorized. In this article, we outline an interdisciplinary approach... Read More about Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.