Emmott, C. , Sanford, A. and Alexander, M. (2013) Rhetorical control of readers' attention: psychological and stylistic perspectives on foreground and background in narrative. In: Bernaerts, L., de Geest, D., Herman, L. and Vervaeck, B. (eds.) Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative. Series: Frontiers of narrative. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, NE, USA, pp. 39-57. ISBN 9780803244818

Sanford, A.J. and Emmott, C. (2012) Mind, Brain and Narrative. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107017566 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139084321)

Emmott, C. , Sanford, A. and Alexander, M. (2010) Scenarios, characters' roles and plot status: readers' assumptions and writers' manipulations of assumptions in narrative texts. In: Eder, J., Jannidis, F. and Schneider, R. (eds.) Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film and Other Media. Series: Revisionen/Grundbegriffe der Literaturetheorie (3). De Gruyter, pp. 377-399. ISBN 9783110232417

Emmott, C. and Alexander, M. (2010) Detective fiction, plot construction, and reader manipulation: rhetorical control and cognitive misdirection in Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide. In: McIntyre, D. and Busse, B. (eds.) Language and Style: In Honour of Mick Short. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, pp. 328-346. ISBN 9780230231566

Emmott, C. and Alexander, M.G. (2009) Schemata. In: Hühn, P., Pier, J., Schmid, W. and Schönert, J. (eds.) Handbook of Narratology. Series: Narratologia (19). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, Germany. ISBN 9783110189476

Emmott, C. and Alexander, M. (2009) Schemata. Living Handbook of Narratology,

Sanford, A.J.S., Price, J. and Sanford, A.J. (2009) Enhancement and suppression: effects resulting from information structuring in sentences. Memory and Cognition, 37(6), pp. 880-888. (doi: 10.3758/MC.37.6.880)

Sanford, A. (2008) Defining embodiment in understanding. In: Glenberg, A. and Graesser, A. (eds.) Symbols and Embodiment: Debate on Meaning and Cognition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199217274

Ferguson, H.J. and Sanford, A.J. (2008) Anomalies in real and counterfactual worlds: An eye-movement investigation. Journal of Memory and Language, 58(3), pp. 609-626. (doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.06.007)

Sanford, A.J., Filik, R., Emmott, C. and Morrow, L.I. (2008) "They're digging up the road again": the processing cost of institutional "they". Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(3), pp. 372-380. (doi: 10.1080/17470210701634552)

Emmott, C. , Sanford, A.J. and Dawydiak, E. (2007) Stylistics meets cognitive science: studying style in fiction and readers' attention from an interdisciplinary perspective. Style, 41(2), pp. 204-226.

Sanford, A. and Filik, R. (2007) "They" as a gender-unspecified singular pronoun: Eye tracking reveals a processing cost. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, pp. 171-178. (doi: 10.1080/17470210600973390)

Sanford, A.J.S., Sanford, A.J., Molle, J. and Emmott, C. (2006) Shallow processing and attention capture in written and spoken discourse. Discourse Processes, 42(2), pp. 109-130. (doi: 10.1207/s15326950dp4202_2)

Emmott, C. , Sanford, A.J. and Morrow, L.I. (2006) Capturing the attention of readers? Stylistic and psychological perspectives on the use and effect of text fragmentation in narratives. Journal of Literary Semantics, 35(1), pp. 1-30. (doi: 10.1515/JLS.2006.001)