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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Narrative comprehension is context-dependent, but the neural mechanisms are not fully understood.
  • Brief contextual priming significantly influences story interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how brief narrative contexts dynamically shape brain states and feature sensitivity during story comprehension.
  • To elucidate the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying context-dependent narrative interpretation.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data analyzed using hidden Markov modeling (HMM).
  • Participants listened to an ambiguous story under two distinct narrative contexts (affair vs. paranoia).
  • Behavioral analyses assessed participants' judgments of narrative evidence.

Main Results:

  • Identified context-invariant brain states (auditory, language, default mode networks) and context-specific states (control, salience, visual networks).
  • Narrative context modulated the influence of character speech and linguistic features on brain state activation.
  • Behavioral data showed context-dependent effects of character features on narrative judgments.

Conclusions:

  • Brief narrative priming actively reshapes dynamic brain states during story comprehension.
  • Contextual information selectively modulates neural sensitivity to specific linguistic and character-driven features.
  • This reveals how the brain dynamically adapts interpretive processes in naturalistic settings.