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

Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

How literature plays with the brain the neuroscience of reading and art / Paul B. Armstrong. - Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781421410036


Reading, Psychology of.
Psychology and literature.
Neurosciences and the arts.
Literature--Psychology.


Electronic Books.

BF456 / .H695 2013