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Proust was a Neuroscientist written by Jonah Lehrer performed by Dan John Miller on CD (Unabridged)

Proust was a Neuroscientist written by Jonah Lehrer performed by Dan John Miller on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781455840274
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Popular Science
Duration:  420 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Jonah Lehrer
Narrator 1:  Dan John Miller

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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 as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, 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 discovered umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne 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.

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