How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art /
Armstrong, Paul B.,1949-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-212) 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.
Reading, Psychology of.
Psychology and literature.
Neurosciences and the arts.
Literature
Also issued online.