2021

LCE congratulates Ylva Østby  on winning the Teaching Prize of the UiO Psychology Department.

All literature students probably ask themselves this question: Why do I read? Why and how does literature affect me? In courses offered by the LCE study programme, we aim to  illuminate reading experiences through cognitive approaches and to provide insights into how literary texts are built to actually affect our thoughts and feelings.

Novellas, emotions and encounters between East and West – LCE members participate in the Novellember festival.

Mats Haraldsen and Marlene Andresen have previously been assistants at LCE. Now started their fellowships as doctoral students at ILOS. In this article, they talk about their upcoming projects.

Is your MA thesis about literature and its cognitive and emotional dimensions? Then you can apply for a stipend.

The power of reading fiction has been scientifically proven. Art can change your perception of yourself and others.

How do readers develop “critical feeling”?  Professor Rolf Reber joins the Literature, Cognition and Emotions Podcast to talk about how we understand literary works from a cognitive perspective.

Professor Stephan Guth takes us to the Arab world in the fifth episode of the Literature, Cognition and Emotions Podcast. 

Associate Professor Stijn Vervaet talks about the role of literature in relation to cultural memory in the fourth episode of the Literature, Cognition and Emotions Podcast.

Listen to Professor Beate Seibt talk about the feeling of ‘being moved’ and its relation to literature in the third episode of the Literature, Cognition and Emotions Podcast.

In the second episode of the podcast Literature, Cognition and Emotions, Professor Halvor Eifring talks about mind wandering, meditation and reading.

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