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Proust Was a Neuroscientist

by Jonah Lehrer

  • FINISHED
  • Finished April 2019
  • First published 2007

neuroscience art psychology

Lehrer looks at eight artists and writers, including Proust, Stravinsky and Cezanne, who described aspects of the mind before science confirmed them.   He pairs each with the later neuroscience of memory, vision and perception.