Includes bibliographical references and indexes

I. Approaches to narrative and cognition ; 2. Cognitive psychological foundations of narrative experiences / Richard J. Gerrig and Giovanna Egidi ; 3. Narrative construction, cognitive processing, and health / Kitty Klein ; 4. Semantics and narrative in therapeutic discourse / William Frawley, John T. Murray, and Raoul N. Smith -- II. Narrative as cognitive endowment ; 5. Double-scope stories / Mark Turner ; 6. Unnarratable knowledge: the difficulty of understanding evolution by natural selection / H. Porter Abbott ; 7. Stories as a tool for thinking / David Herman -- III. New directions for cognitive narratology ; 8. 'Awake! Open your eyes!': the cognitive logic of external and internal stories / Manfred Jahn ; 9. Cognitive maps and the construction of narrative space / Marie-Laure Ryan ; 10. Natural narratology and cognitive parameters / Monika Fludernik -- IV. Fictional minds ; 11. Cognitive science, the thinking mind, and literary narrative / Uri Margolin ; 12. Constructing social space: sociocognitive factors in the interpretation of character relations / Catherine Emmott ;13. The mind beyond the skin / Alan Palmer