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Neurocomputational Poetics
- How the Brain Processes Verbal Art
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This book introduces a new thrilling field - Neurocomputational Poetics, the scientific 'marriage' between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience. Its goal is to uncover the secrets of verbal art reception and to explain how readers come to understand and like literary texts. For centuries, verbal art reception has been considered too subjective for quantitative scientific studies and till date many scholars in the humanities and neurosciences alike view literary reading as too complex for accurate computational prediction of the neuronal, experiential and behavioural aspects of reader responses to texts. This book sets out to change this view.
4 - Reader and Reading Act Analysis
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As sketched in the metamodel of Chapter 2, literary experiences result from the dynamic interaction between author, (con-)text and reader. Neurocomputational Poetics focusses on text and reader because these can best be characterized by quantifiable features. In the previous chapter on text analysis, I presented methods for computing text features that, according to the NCPM, can bias a reader's mind more towards the upper or the lower route of processing. This bias can be induced globally by the choice of a novel instead of a poetry collection, for example, or locally when re-reading a section of a text to reflect upon its form or content. In this chapter, I deal with both the reader and the act of reading. The ‘reading motivation and mode’ box of the mesomodel in Chapter 2 brings a number of reader-related factors into play that also influence this bias towards one of the two routes. Among those are stable personality variables called ‘traits’ or more transient, local aspects like spontaneous mood management called ‘states’ in personality psychology. Here, I discuss methods for analyzing these in Neurocomputational Poetics studies.
Reader Analysis
Most empirical studies of literature and reading psychology focus on the ‘average reader’: a purely statistical creature typically represented by mean values averaged across the data from some rather small (N∼20) and generally non-representative sample. Indeed, the large majority of empirical studies on reading so far have used undergraduate psychology students. When examining the processing of non-literary, short expository texts – so-called textoids – typical for these studies, the distortion in the data produced by this overselective sampling method may not be as detrimental as when studying the reception of verbal art. But even if the error introduced by this sampling method were negligible, reading ultimately remains a solitary, subjective and private act. It goes without saying that readers have different cultural and social backgrounds, education, habits, skills, personalities and preferences. And all these produce variables that contribute to the reading act and can be more or less well assessed. Luckily, psychology also offers methods to study readers’ reading skills, personalities or interests, and these provide useful data when trying to predict the outcome of a reading act via models like the NCPM. Indeed, empirical studies have shown that reading can change both personality states and traits, and these, in turn, can change the way texts are read and appreciated.
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5 - Computational Poetics I: Simple Applications
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In the preceding chapters, I have laid the ground for actual applications in Neurocomputational Poetics: we have the model and a set of methods for text, reader and reading act analyses. The next two chapters discuss concrete examples of how we can apply this toolbox.
My aim in the present chapter about simple applications is to
• make people who love literature aware of methods for computational poetics and their utility to further our understanding of how the pleasures of reading are constructed in the brain in response to a myriad of simple features that, in concert produce a complex symphony;
• show people who have no skills or interest in programming languages how to apply simple tools and ready-to-go apps so that they produce fascinating analyses of complex texts that not only offer new insights about verbal art but also testable predictions for scientific studies.
Euphony and Eusemy: Sound and Meaning Beauty
In poetry speech sounds spontaneously and immediately display their proper semantic function.
–––Jakobson and Waugh, (1979, p. 225).According to Tenet 2 in Chapter 2, poetic effects start at the micropoetic level of single words, and already young children are able to both perceive and produce them. There are a number of simple methods to compute the potential of single words to create such effects based on two fundamental aspects: sound and meaning. No doubt, words can have a more or less pleasing sound such as in ‘pee’ vs. ‘piss’ and they can have more or less ugly meanings such as in ‘murder’ vs. ‘beauty’. But how do these two potential sources of micropoetic effects interact at the lexical level? And what role do they play when acting in the context of a line or stanza?
From the very beginning of poetry on Sumerian plates in the twenty-fourth century BC, poets knew that sound and meaning must not be independent – as posited in de Saussure's famous first principle of general linguistics – but could very well influence each other. A book summarizing results of the annual elections of the most beautiful German word is full of examples for words in which ‘euphony ∼ eusemy’, that is, they are beautiful in both sound and meaning. On the other hand, there are words that mean something beautiful, a colourful butterfly for instance, but they do not sound nicely. The German word for butterfly, ‘Schmetterling’, is a notorious example.
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1 - Introduction: The Two Boons of an Unnatural Daily Activity
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Can you put into words your experiences while you sit on a couch and move your eyes smoothly across a piece of paper or a screen, which – as the only sensory input your brain has to process – provides some ink blobs or pixels you have learned to identify as letters after years of training? The following two quotes nicely summarize what I think is essential about this, in terms of evolution, most unnatural daily activity of the mind. They reveal two different aspects or functions that you perhaps are also familiar with. One evokes experiences of immersing oneself in a textual world; the other stirs up emotions and feelings of beauty. Both, the immersive and the aesthetic experiences, so well described in these citations, emerge from an interaction between the contents of the texts they read and the associative semantic networks in their brains.
A) ‘It starts spontaneously, and it keeps on as long as I keep reading. […] I have to concentrate and get involved. […] I immediately immerse myself in the reading, and the problems I usually worry about disappear. […] It starts as soon as something attracts my attention particularly, something that interests me. […] It can start wherever there is a chance to read undisturbed. […] One feels well, quiet, peaceful. […] I feel as if I belonged completely in the situation described in the book. […] I identify with the characters, and take part in what I am reading. […] I feel like I have the book stored in my mind.’
B) ‘It is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. It should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity – it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. It lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar‘. I would define it as the rhythmical creation of beauty.’
Throughout this book, I will treat these two aspects apart: immersion, mainly associated with the reading of prose, and aesthetic feelings, most often associated with the reading of poetry. This does not mean, however, that people cannot have aesthetic feelings when reading a novel or immersive experiences during the reception of poetry.
3 - Text Analysis
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To go one stage further, ‘consistency’ and ‘tendency’ are most naturally reduced to ‘frequency’, and so, it appears, the stylistician becomes a statistician
—Leech & Short (2007, p. 34).What gets readers to be ‘on loan’ to an author, thinking, feeling, suffering and acting within them? Why did Sappho and Homer know so well how to move, surprise and please their readers so that they want to read on? The first step when trying to predict how readers’ thoughts and feelings are con-trolled by what they read is to analyze the tools of the trade. Since Aristotle's days, uncountable books and articles from numerous scientific disciplines have been devoted to the issue of revealing the secrets of the power of verbal art. My approach is a ‘from simple to complex’ one. In the previous chapter, I talked about textual back- and foreground features that co-determine reading acts. Here, I will show examples of such features, and in Chapters 5 and 6, I will explain how these features can be quantified via current methods of distant reading and computational stylistics. These include novel techniques of machine learning and attempt to answer questions that are of interest to literary scholars and critics, reading psychologists or people working in education or the book industry. Combining quantitative text and reader analyses with my NCPM will allow me to predict effects of these features on reader responses at all levels of psychological enquiry: neuronal, behavioural and experiential.
Simple Text Features, Tropologies, Close, Distant and Middle Reading
My Ph.D. advisor Kevin O’Regan always told me that reading is just visual perception and thus obeys basic laws of pattern recognition. With one crucial difference: unlike most other visual stimuli, such as visual scenes, texts have a clear advantage for quantitative analyses, because they represent highly structured material, just as with the rule-determined languages they are written in. In general, their elements – letters, words, sentences – are compositional: simple units are combined to form larger, more complex ones, thus allowing an ‘infinite use with finite means’ as Wilhelm von Humboldt put it. And many of these units can be quantitatively described and analyzed into even simpler basic features via statistical and computational methods.
In tackling the central question of how writers can act on my sweat glands, limbic system or feelings through stringing together syllables and words, it is useful to have a close look at their verbal toolbox.
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Acknowledgements
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Preface
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The start of every act of reading a story, poem or book is a decision: the decision to go someplace else. This place can be a world we have not been to before and it can lead to forgotten memories or dreams, suppressed desires or emotions or to novel ideas that change one's life. There may be many hidden motivations or explicit reasons leading to this decision. The consequence is always the same: one abandons control of one's mind and lends it – for some time – to a writer. This is a risky business, for one is now loaned out to another who thinks, feels, suffers and acts within one. It is like a blend of two minds or consciousnesses. To a certain extent, reading removes the subject–object division that constitutes all perception. If the conditions are right, readers of verbal art will immerse into that other place, that other reality and forget the world around them. This immersive experience is one of two primary reasons why we buy and read stories and novels; the other being the aesthetic experience often reported when reading lyrics and poetry. A psychiatrist friend of mine once compared immersion with a psychopathological state. And indeed, reading can become an addiction. But even if engaged reading was a mild form of psychosomatic disease, the disease seems often better than the cure: being immune to the immersive and aesthetic effects of reading fiction, being indifferent to or unmoved by the actions or feelings of a protagonist would mean that one misses out on one of the greatest pleasures of the mind; but also, that one lacks empathy, which is fundamental for our social life. Indeed, moving your mind through the text worlds of fiction is good training for both cognitive and social-emotional skills. Both your IQ and EQ can only benefit – if you read the right stuff.
What makes literary reading such a captivating experience despite its rapidity is based on the fact that associative semantic networks are activated in the brain. These put in train thoughts and feelings as well as unconscious motion sequences. Semantic networks is a handy metaphor to describe how our brains organize information about the world in the form of a net of concept nodes linked by connections.
6 - Computational Poetics II: Sophisticated Applications
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In the previous chapter, relatively simple computational analyses were discussed without any comparison to human response data. In this chapter, I compare the predictions of more sophisticated theoretical and computational models to human ratings collected during the reading of entire chapters, books and poem collections.
Story Analysis I: Plots
After having discussed the complexities of computational analyses of multiword expressions in the last chapter, it is now time for considering the biggest text units readers can process: stories, novels and poems. Two superfeatures playing a major role at this macrostructural level of the reading act are plots and characters, discussed in the first two sections of this chapter. Narratologists and literary critics still continue to debate on the exact definition of the term plot. For the present purposes, I adopt a structuralist position according to which plot is considered a pattern that yields coherence to the narrative by enchaining story events in a limited number of typical sequences. As we will see, such prototypical plotlines can well be identified via computational analyses.
Plot, Event Detection and Sentiment Analysis
Plot is about the causal and temporal patterns arranging the events in a story and how this arrangement in turn facilitates identification of their motivations and consequences. This ‘plot as global structure view’ facilitates the application of sentiment analysis to the identification of story plotlines and it is also closely linked to the psychological concept of situation model building. Abstractly, a story can be represented as a partially specified trajectory in situation-state space: a temporally ordered sequence of events. Story comprehension then can be seen as the problem of inferring the most probable missing features of this trajectory, a cognitive process which is driven by affective-aesthetic processes of suspense or surprise. If the incoming information from the text is consistent with the situation model currently under construction (e.g. shares characters and locations), it is mapped onto the current model. If it does not overlap with the current model, a reader will shift the focus of attention to begin building a new structure that satisfies the constraints of the current information.
As outlined in Chapter 2, readers’ brains code these in the form of situation models with the dimensions:
• Time. One event relative to another, and to the time of narration.
• Space. The spatial relations between events or protagonists in the situation model.
• People and objects.
7 - Neurocomputational Poetics I: Upper Route Studies
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Having dedicated two chapters to the discussion of methods of computational poetics able to predict behavioural aspects of the reading act such as liking ratings or line choice, I now turn to Neurocomputational Poetics studies. In these, I combine computational with experiential, behavioural and neuronal analyses that inform about the validity of the NCPM 's hypotheses and predictions regarding reading acts for diverse materials from single words to multiword expressions, stories and poems.
The central hypothesis of the NCPM mesomodel discussed in Chapter 2 with regard to the upper route is this: texts that have clearly more background than foreground elements likely trigger immersive experiences through activation of the brain's automatic reading network and implicit processing leading to a fluent reading mode. In contrast, those with a low background/foreground elements ratio tend to evoke an aesthetic trajectory associated with the operation of larger neural network including more right-hemispheric regions and explicit processing resulting in a dysfluent reading mode, that is, they activate the lower route. Empirical studies can test this hypothesis by finding traces of the operation of the upper and lower routes assumed by the NCPM at the three levels of observation: the neuronal, experiential and behavioural. Chapters 7 and 8 discuss key studies that examined the NCPM's central and other key hypotheses over the last decade. The upper route studies of Chapter 7 deal with the reading of prose and mainly examine the first boon of reading, immersive processes. The lower route studies presented in the next chapter focus on the second boon, aesthetic processes, mostly examined in poetry reception.
A short recap concerning the other main assumptions of the NCPM seems in order here before we consider the empirical evidence. In the introductory Chapter 1, I discussed the likely neuronal bases of immersion expressed in the symbol grounding and neuronal recycling hypotheses. In short, the first hypoth-esis claims that the neuronal processes evoked by words and sentences are similar to those evoked by the objects they refer to. The second postulates that ‘exapted’ structures in the brain, like the visual word form area, enabled efficient reading and the countless fast inferential and figurative processes ‘running’ in other brain regions that underlie it. The neuronal recycling hypothesis is tightly linked with what I called the Panksepp–Jakobson hypothesis in honour of these two pioneers whose work inspired mine so much.
2 - Models and Methods
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If asking the right questions is part of the art of science – those that, if answered, will make a difference and ideally can be answered during an academic career – and if you are engaged in a long-term scientific adventure like reading research, it is generally favourable to work with models in search of answers. They provide theoretical guidance and prevent you from straying in the dark. They put a spotlight on parts of the a priori infinite search space that hypercomplex research objects like language or reading confront you with. This limits your search to a few corners you can shed light on with a few shrewd, testable hypotheses. As a fallibilist, I believe that having to reject a hypothesis is more informative than confirming it, but I know that learning from errors requires more courage and frustration tolerance than enjoying the rewards of having been right again. Of course, in reality, both sides of the game – learning from erroneous predictions and being motivated by (partially) confirmed ones – complement each other just as is the case in life. What drives us always is a mixture of fear of failure and hope of success; with the right balance, you can go far in reaching your goals.
The Neurocomputational Poetics Model (NCPM) of Verbal Art Reception
How would we look for a new law? […]
First, we guess it. [
Then, we compute the consequences of the guess. […]
And then we compare these computation results to […] an experiment […]
If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
And that simple statement is the key to science.
—Lecture by Richard FeynmanAlthough the first publication of my main theoretical torch, the NCPM, happened in 2011, my love story with cognitive and computational modelling started much earlier: during my undergraduate studies at the University of Würzburg in Bavaria when I first learned about Egon Brunswick's lens model.
The World Seen through a Lens or What Bananas and Books Have in Common
The lens model was an early attempt at modelling human perception as a process of correlating sensory cues like the colour of a banana with judgements (and resulting actions) regarding an object's useful properties, for example its degree of ripeness. In the 1930s Brunswick already understood that the brain is a correlation machine, long before the neural network models I use in my research were invented.
8 - Neurocomputational Poetics II: Lower Route Studies
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In this section, my focus is on studies that informed us about the workings of the lower route of the NCPM and the second boon of reading: affective-aesthetic processes. For the sake of clarity and simplicity, I divided the section into studies dealing mainly with effects of sound and those investigating effects of semantics, knowing all too well that sound and meaning are not as independent as has been assumed. The first study serves as an introduction on the role of syllables, shedding light on the internal structure of syllables. The remaining ‘sound’ studies then directly speak to affective-aesthetic processes. The first three semantic studies concern the affective-aesthetic processing of single words, followed by two studies looking at cognitive-affective effects in meaning making for multiword expressions (literal and metaphoric compounds and idioms). The last study examines affective-aesthetic effects in proverbs and anti-proverbs.
The Sound Studies
Music and language can be seen as forms of sound that are meaningful within a society and can express a certain degree of intentionality, that is, they can represent or stand for things or states of affairs. As a hobby musician and great fan of both the music and lyrics of jazz standards like ‘As Time Goes By’ or ‘Autumn Leaves’ – whose original text was written by one of my favourite French poets, Jaques Prévert – I was always interested in how the two play together to create stronger emotions than each on its own. In both media, the sound material is split up into two sections, pitch and rhythm, its continuum being divided into notes on the one side and syllables on the other. Music combines its tones to chords to arrange them into a syntagma of time units such as rhythm, tempo and beat. Similarly, language combines syllables into words to arrange them into a syntax with its own time units: stress or accents, lengths, shortenings and breaks. So, if the syllables are so important, where do they come from? The next paragraph gives us a tentative answer to that question.
Phonemic Jargon Aphasia or Why Mr. Tan Had a Secret Preferred Syllable
Imagine you wake up in the morning, see your wife and want to say some nice words to her. But then, only the monosyllable ‘tan’ comes out of your mouth.
9 - Conclusions
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This book started with the central claim of the NCPM that typically prose and poetry texts are processed by partially separable neuronal circuits that underlie different mental operations of implicit vs. explicit processing and lead to distinct experiences of immersion vs. aesthetic feelings, as well as different observable behaviours, such as shorter vs. longer gaze durations. In reality, there can be cases where this necessary simplification that enormously facilitates formal modelling and empirical investigation does not apply, but the majority of empirical data discussed in this book suggest its validity. Let me recap how verbal art reception functions according to the NCPM and point out its limitations.
Literary Reading According to the NCPM
To sum up the large model section of Chapter 2 in a nutshell, an individual act of literary reading could proceed like this: Influenced by the significative network, cultural norms (the codes in the metamodel) will bias the reader's inclination to start the reading act, as will multiple previous reading episodes that left their traces in the readers’ semantic memory, her momentary mood and time budget, more permanent personality traits or the availability and richness of appropriate reading materials (an analogue or digital library). All this might contribute to creating (or not) a longing for the pleasures of ludic reading which can be biased in two directions. Either in favour of immersing oneself for longer periods of time (typically hours to days, with breaks in between) in enthralling text worlds inhabited by interesting characters entangled in suspenseful plots that activate the brain's affect and empathy networks and evoke emotions like joy, fear, hope, sympathy or anger. Although a minority, some personalities also might long for diving into conflicting inner monologues and rich inner life descriptions of his/her favourite character. Still others may favor more artful texts where suspenseful events are mingled with the occasional rhetorical device, most likely metaphor, hyperbole and idioms (cf. Chapter 5). Alternatively, the reader may be biased in the other direction and fancy some shorter ‘reading through the ear’ episodes (typically minutes to hours) due to a longing for rhythm and rhyme, amazing metaphors and puzzling figurative meaning in general, crazy syntax, multi-layered polysemy, feelings of interest, fascination, being moved, concernedness or extended (self-)reflective moments.
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7 - Towards a neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading
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Abstract A neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading is presented in the light of experimental data and ideas from neuroscience, rhetoric, poetics, and aesthetics which should facilitate a more realistic and natural approach towards a special use of language, i.e. the reading of fiction and poetry.
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- By Carsten Allefeld, Silke Anders, Michael Andric, Sharon Ash, Mark Blokpoel, Giovanna Egidi, Murray Grossman, Uri Hasson, John-Dylan Haynes, Arthur M. Jacobs, Pia Knoeferle, Line Burholt Kristensen, Anna K. Kuhlen, Christopher A. Kurby, Iris van Rooij, Jeremy I. Skipper, Steven L. Small, Arjen Stolk, Ivan Toni, Mikkel Wallentin, Roel M. Willems, Jeffrey M. Zacks
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