In April 2023, my book chapter, The social brain and the neuroscience of storytelling, was published in the Springer Nature book Teaching Science students to communicate: A practical guide (Editors Susan Rowland and Louise Kuchel). You can read it here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-91628-2_4
The abstract is as follows:
Why is storytelling so powerful? Why do we remember stories so easily? Research suggests that our brains are socially and emotionally hard-wired to absorb stories. Stories help us learn and remember because they generate emotion and empathy. We know that storytelling is a useful and persuasive tool. Now, advances in neuroscience are helping us understand why our brains react differently to stories than they do to non-storied sets of information. As we teach and learn to communicate science, it is important to find stories that make the content alive, emotive, and exciting.