Screen LibraryStories and the brain : the neuroscience of narrative /
"Neuroscience sheds light on the human proclivity for storytelling. Humans would not produce narratives so prolifically if they weren't somehow good for human brains and embodied interactions with the world. The author connects neuroscience with humanis
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Neuroscience sheds light on the human proclivity for storytelling. Humans would not produce narratives so prolifically if they weren't somehow good for human brains and embodied interactions with the world. The author connects neuroscience with humanis |
| Carrier Form: | x, 259 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781421437743 (hardback) : 1421437740 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | P301 |
| CLC: | I045-05 |
| Call Number: | I045-05/A737 |
| Contents: | Neuroscience and narrative theory -- The temporality of narrative in the decentered brain -- Action, embodied congnition, and the "as if" of narrative figuration -- Neuroscience and the social powers of narrative. |