title: Personal narratives as the highest level of cognitive integration.
abstract: We suggest that the hierarchical predictive processing account detailed by Clark can be usefully integrated with narrative psychology by situating personal narratives at the top of an individual's knowledge hierarchy. Narrative representations function as high-level generative models that direct our attention and structure our expectations about unfolding events. Implications for integrating scientific and humanistic views of human experience are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6, Canada. jacob.hirsh@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Jacob B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Hirsh
authors.forename: Raymond A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Mar
authors.forename: Jordan B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*