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Proust Was a Neuroscientist

By Jonah Lehrer

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Proust Was a Neuroscientist

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Is science the only path to knowledge? In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and composers, Lehrer shows us how artists have discovered truths about the human mind - real, tangible truths - that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot understood the brain's malleability; how the French chef Escoffier intuited umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Virginia Woolf pierced the mysteries of consciousness. It's a riveting tale of art trumping science again and again.
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Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2012-04-19
Publication Date:
2012-04-19
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0857862316
ISBN13:
9780857862310
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
183 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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