{"product_id":"stories-and-the-brain-9781421437743","title":"Stories and the Brain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explains how the brain interacts with the social worldand why stories matter.   How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning. Armstrong argues that the ways in which stories order events in time, imitate actions, and relate our experiences to others' lives are correlated to cortical processes of temporal binding, the circuit between action and perception, and the mirroring operations underlying embodied intersubjectivity. He reveals how recent neuroscientific findings about how the brain workshow it assembles neuronal syntheses without a central controllerilluminate cognitive processes involving time, action, and self-other relations that are central to narrative.   An extension of his previous book, How Literature Plays with the Brain, this n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStories and the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-researched, engaging discussion on what narrative theory and neuroscience stand to gain from continued collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCerebrum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Neuroscience and Narrative Theory\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Temporality of Narrative and the Decentered Brain\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Action, Embodied Cognition, and the As-If of Narrative Figuration\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Neuroscience and the Social Powers of Narrative\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529536872791,"sku":"9781421437743","price":76.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421437743.jpg?v=1731876003","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stories-and-the-brain-9781421437743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}