Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture
Zunshine’s book was difficult to stop reading; while she handles all these genres with skill, clearly her strength is in reading literature (as she returns to literary references even in the other chapters). Having an understanding of human evolution and how the brain works makes reading a book such as Zunshine’s more satisfying.(Gregory F. TagueASEBL Journal)Offers readers a good deal of food for thought and exemplifies how illuminating the principles from science can be when applied to other forms of culture. Highly recommended.(Choice)Drawing widely and judiciously on recent research in neuroscience,Getting Inside Your Headexpands [theory of mind] to cover all of human culture, from novels to films, plays, musicals, paintings and reality shows.(Michael BerubeAmerican Scientist)