Research Catalog

Title

Cognition, culture, and the arts : interdisciplinary perspectives on narrating, understanding, and reading / Peter Hanenberg, Wolfgang Hallet (eds.).

Publication

• Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hanenberg, Peter, 1961-
• Hallet, Wolfgang

Description

129 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

The volume shows in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts contributes to the understanding of human cognition. It explores evolutionary substrates of narrative; the interfaces between culture, stories and cognition; the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of reading; and other techniques of sense-making in music and the arts.

Series Statement

Passagem ; Band 15

Uniform Title

Passagem (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; v. 15.

Subject

• Neurosciences and the arts
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Cognition

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Is culture exclusively human? / Alexandre Castro-Caldas -- On the evolutionary substrates of narrative / Katja Mellman -- To read and why to read : interfaces between culture, stories and cognition / Vera Nünning -- Why there is no such thing as a "Superreader" : on the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of literary reading / Susanne Reichl -- Telling vs. showing : imagined dialogues, the conversation frame, and sense-making in the arts / Ana Margarida Abrantes -- The uncanny, the brain and the pleasure of ambiguity / Peter Hanenberg -- Weather reports : discourse and musical cognition / Per Aage Brandt -- Music, aesthetics and cognition : 'musical prose' in the fin de siècle / Elisheva Rigbi.

Call Number

NX180.N48

ISBN

• 9783631861264
• 3631861265
• 9783631862520 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783631862537 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• on1322161277
• 1322161277
• SCSB-14370573

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries