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How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
Paul B. Armstrong
How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
Paul B. Armstrong
Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena.
240 pages, 23 b&w illus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 16, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9781421415765 |
Publishers | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 229 × 155 × 16 mm · 358 g |
Language | English |
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