Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains and Gaps is an academic collection that explores the intersection between literary studies and cognitive science.

The book focuses on how we process and understand literary texts through the lens of human cognition. It discusses how mental processes—such as attention, memory, and categorization—influence our interpretation of metaphors, narratives, and poetic language. It is essentially a "state-of-the-art" review that assesses what the field has achieved so far (Gains) and what areas still need research (Gaps).