| Sumario: | The article focuses on Paul A. Armstrong’s book *Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative*, which presents a neurophenomenological model linking storytelling experiences with neurobiological processes involved in cognition, time, action, and intersubjectivity. Armstrong argues that narrative cognition negotiates a dynamic tension between the brain’s need for certainty and flexibility, shaping how meaning and belief are formed through pattern recognition and reinterpretation. The work bridges literary theory and neuroscience, offering insights relevant to future studies by providing a neurocognitive framework for adaptability and resilience amid uncertainty and complex crises. It also supports dialogic methodologies and a constructionist metatheory of relational identity, emphasizing narrative’s role in individual and collective responses to disruption.
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