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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787667803321

Autore

Armstrong Paul B. <1949->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-4214-1003-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

801/.92

Soggetti

Reading, Psychology of

Psychology and literature

Neurosciences and the arts

Literature - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.