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100 1 $aLehrer, Jonah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007013930
245 10 $aProust was a neuroscientist /$cJonah Lehrer.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Co.,$c2007.
300 $axii, 242 pages :$billustrations, music ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 216-230) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tWalt Whitman: The Substance of Feeling -- $g2.$tGeorge Eliot: The Biology of Freedom -- $g3.$tAuguste Escoffier: The Essence of Taste -- $g4.$tMarcel Proust: The Method of Memory -- $g5.$tPaul Cezanne: The Process of Sight -- $g6.$tIgor Stravinsky: The Source of Music -- $g7.$tGertrude Stein: The Structure of Language -- $g8.$tVirginia Woolf: The Emergent Self.
520 1 $a"In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But, argues Jonah Lehrer, science is not the only path to knowledge. When it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first." "Taking a group of artists - a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists - Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain's malleability; how the French chef Escoffier identified umami (the fifth taste); how Cezanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language - a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists. It's the ultimate tale of art trumping science." "More broadly, Lehrer shows that there's a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and this is what art knows better than science. A blend of biography, criticism, and science writing. Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to brilliant effect."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aNeurosciences and the arts.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007001222
650 0 $aNeurosciences$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010103672
650 2 $aNeurosciences.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009488
650 2 $aArt.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001154
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007008518.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/2007008518-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2007008518-b.html
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