In his new book Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) Jonah Lehrer writes about how novelists and other artists intuited knowledge about the brain that scientists are only now figuring out.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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I write novels for teens, and have always been fascinated by how my brain behaves. My most memorable experience was losing the definition of "memorial" when someone showed me a playbill with my former dance teacher's name and the word memorial attached to it. I kept saying "I wonder what that means." I had to look it up in the dictionary at the end of the day. In reality, I wasn't ready to know that my teacher had died but I couldn't call up the meaning of the word on my own. The brain as protection!
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