NeuroMyth sits at the intersection of six established academic traditions. Its legitimacy derives from the convergence of independent research bodies.
Bruner, 1990
Narrative Psychology
Jerome Bruner distinguished two fundamental modes of thought: paradigmatic and narrative. The latter is not an irrational residue but a primary mode of organising experience. Dan McAdams extended this: narrative organises self and social perception.
Heider & Simmel, 1944
Neutral stimulus
A low-determinacy visual stimulus forces the candidate to fill gaps, order relationships, select actors. These are non-random cognitive operations. The neutrality of the stimulus makes the narrative strategy visible.
Weick, 1995
Sensemaking
NeuroMyth doesn’t ask whether the story is true, but how it is made coherent: where agency is placed, how ambiguity is handled, whether conflict is externalised or absorbed by the protagonist.
Propp, 1968
Structural analysis
Propp’s morphology proved narratives can be analysed in codable functions and roles. NeuroMyth uses this principle: work on codable variables — initiating actor, antagonism, closure modality.
Pennebaker, 2003
Psycholinguistics
Natural language contains systematic cues: degree of agency, evaluative density, pronoun frequency, syntactic complexity. NeuroMyth uses this as a complementary layer.
EU AI Act 2024/1689
Regulatory framework
Annex III, Art. 72 — mandatory human oversight, active post-market monitoring. NeuroMyth treats this classification as a quality marker, not a bureaucratic constraint.