Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Informationen zum Autor Jonah Lehrer Klappentext 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. An illuminating and unusual book about how famous artists have anticipated the discoveries of neuroscience. Zusammenfassung An illuminating and unusual book about how famous artists have anticipated the discoveries of neuroscience.

Product details

• Authors: Jonah Lehrer, Lehrer Jonah
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780857862310
• ISBN: 978-0-85786-231-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience