Abstract This article explores the potential of historical narratives to inform and guide action, taking case border control in Hungary. The Hungarian government has recently criminalised irregular crossing made a comparison between Ottoman Occupation contemporary challenges mass migration legitimise its new measures. Qualitative interviews conducted 2019 seem suggest that some members police, ...

The article is devoted to the narrative-constructivist analysis of historical memory Founding Fathers in USA. To achieve this goal, specific research tasks were performed article. First, nation was conceptualized as a ‘narrative community’ constructed by certain narratives about people, their culture, past, present and future. Secondly, differences between knowledge (knowledge obtained using me...

We investigated hypotheses derived from the dual representation theory of posttraumatic stress disorder, which proposes that flashbacks and ordinary memories of trauma are supported by different types of representation. Sixty-two participants meeting diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder completed a detailed written trauma narrative, and afterwards identified those sections in t...

During realistic, continuous perception, humans automatically segment experiences into discrete events. Using a novel model of cortical event dynamics, we investigate how cortical structures generate event representations during narrative perception and how these events are stored to and retrieved from memory. Our data-driven approach allows us to detect event boundaries as shifts between stabl...

The author examined memory for text in terms of the independent influences of semantic knowledge associations and text organization. Semantic associations were operationalized as the semantic relatedness between individual text concepts and the text as a whole and assessed with latent semantic analysis. The author assessed text organization by simulating comprehension with the construction inte...

The cognitive sphere (including, among others, memory and attention) plays an extremely important role in an individual’s life. Problems in this sphere of functioning may be concomitant with other somatic disorders, along with gastrointestinal diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome or functional dyspepsia. The goal of the current study was to assess the cognitive functioning of patients suff...