LoginProust Was a Neuroscientist
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Amazon Significant Seven, December 2007: Proust may have been more neurasthenic than neuroscientist, but Jonah Lehrer argues in Proust Was a Neuroscientist that he (and many of his fellow artists) made discoveries about the brain that it took science decades to catch up with (in Proust's case, that memory is a process, not a repository). Lehrer weaves back and forth between art and science in eight graceful portraits of artists (mostly writers, along with a chef, a painter, and a composer) who understood, better at times than atomizing scientists, that truth can begin with "what reality feels like." S
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Release date: 1 September 2008
ISBN-10 : 0547085907 | ISBN-13: 9780547085906
Release date: 1 September 2008
ISBN-10 : 0547085907 | ISBN-13: 9780547085906
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