Stories 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 humanistic narrative theory. He explains how...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2020
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Zusammenfassung: | "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 humanistic narrative theory. He explains how stories coordinate time, represent embodied action, and promote social collaboration, which are all fundamental to the brain-body interactions through which humans evolved as a species and constructed the cultures they inhabit"-- |
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Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 223-246 |
Beschreibung: | x, 259 Seiten |
ISBN: | 9781421437750 978-1-4214-3775-0 9781421437743 978-1-4214-3774-3 |