How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art

Publication Data

• Title How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art
• Author Paul B. Armstrong
• Publisher The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Baltimore
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Reading, Psychology of
• Psychology and literature
• Neurosciences and the arts
• United States

How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art by Paul B. Armstrong. ISBN 9781421410029. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.