Narrative and Cognition Lab
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Funded by University of Durham.
The Narrative and Cognition Lab at the University of Durham, funded as part of a Wellcome Discovery Platform grant in the Medical Humanities, will bring together scholars from narrative theory, cognitive scientists (philosophers of mind, neuroscientists, psychologists, phenomenologists, neurobiologists), and creative artists to create a methodological catalyst for exploring narrative, cognition.
The Lab will host a team of international collaborators and visiting scholars, short-term fellowships, seminar series, workshops, and resident artists, as well as a partnership with the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Through the creation of a hybrid (online and in-person) collaborative vessel, it will chart, navigate, record and reflect on interdisciplinary encounters, methodological exchanges of theories and experiments targeting a spectrum of common, fringe, or hidden experiences such exploring how immersive and imaginative experiences relate to intractable states such as dreaming or fantasy, or investigating the boundary between imagination and reality – a critical, self-shaping, and dynamic space in human cognition, but a poorly understood aspect of our mental life and health.
Wheeler will be a visiting researcher atthe Lab for the Durham Autumn term 2024.
Total award value £15,950.40