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Stories and the Brain
The Neuroscience of Narrative
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 works—how it assembles neuronal syntheses without a central controller—illuminate 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 new study applies Armstrong's analysis of the cognitive value of aesthetic harmony and dissonance to narrative. Armstrong explains how narratives help the brain negotiate the neverending conflict between its need for pattern, synthesis, and constancy and its need for flexibility, adaptability, and openness to change. The neuroscience of these interactions is part of the reason stories give shape to our lives even as our lives give rise to stories.
Taking up the age-old question of what our ability to tell stories reveals about language and the mind, this truly interdisciplinary project should be of interest to humanists and cognitive scientists alike.
About the Author
Reviews
"Offering an excellent discussion about narrative in the context of embodied neuroscience, Stories and the Brain demonstrates a nuanced understanding of an extensive range of experimental science. An impressive book."—Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis, author of Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind
"In Stories and the Brain, Paul Armstrong persuasively and astutely demonstrates that the goals of theories of neuroscience and narrative will only be met through mutual engagement by scholars in the two domains. This book offers provocative challenges to prevailing dogma and advances innovative claims to displace it."—Richard J. Gerrig, Stony Brook University, author of Psychology and Life
"In this deeply learned and unfailingly thoughtful contribution to narrative studies, Paul Armstrong explores what neuroscience, narratology, and narrative can do for each other. In so doing, he develops a distinctive and powerful neurophenomenological model of narrative that deserves the attention of the international community of narratologists."—James Phelan, Ohio State University, author of Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative
"Stories and the Brain is a well-researched, engaging discussion on what narrative theory and neuroscience stand to gain from continued collaboration."—Cerebrum
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Other Titles by Paul B. Armstrong
How Literature Plays with the Brain
Other Titles in LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature
Dorian Unbound
The Academic Avant-Garde
Other Titles in Literary theory
Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature
A Centaur in London
Dorian Unbound