How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art / Paul B. Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-
Date:
[2013]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]

Physical description

xv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-212) and index.

Contents

Preface -- The brain and aesthetic experience -- How the brain learns to read and the play of harmony and dissonance -- The neuroscience of the hermeneutic circle -- The temporality of reading and the de-centered brain -- The social brain and the paradox of the alter ego -- Epilogue.

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    Medical Collection
    BF456.R2 2013B73h
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ISBN

  • 9781421410029
  • 1421410028