From the Bookshelf of The Year of Reading Proust…

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Jonah Lehrer

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Apr 24, 2013 Shelley rated it liked it

Shelves: nonfic-science-medicine, nonfic-art

That artists frequently have insights which scientists later verify is no groundbreaking idea. Some of the case studies in this book, i.e. the chapter on George Eliot (including an unforgivably bad misreading of Lydgate's story, a veritable half of the main plot of Middlemarch), are rather silly. Others, the chapters on Proust and prions, or the search for umami, or the workings of the visual and auditory cortices as revealed by the works of Cezanne and Stravinsky, are rather interesting and com ...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Lemar rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction

Fascinating look at how what we still call modern art, art that appeared in the early 20th century, presaged much of what has since been discovered about how the brain works. The works of artists such as Cezanne and writers including Proust and Woolf are examined. These works connected with readers and viewers in a way that the artists grasped intuitively and is now borne out through empirical research. A quick example is Cezanne whose paintings reflect images much closer to what the brain actua ...more

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