Research Catalog

Title

The soul in the brain : the cerebral basis of language, art, and belief / Michael R. Trimble.

Author

Trimble, Michael R.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007.

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Details

Description

290 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this study, Michael R. Trimble tackles the interrelationship among brain function, language, art - especially music and poetry - and religion. By examining the breakdown of language in several neuropsychiatric disorders, neuroscientists have identified brain circuits that are involved with metaphor, poetry, music, and religious experiences. Drawing on this body of evidence, Trimble argues that religious experiences and beliefs are explicable biologically and relate to brain function, especially of the nondominant hemisphere."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Brain > Miscellanea
• Neuropsychology
• Language and culture
• Neurobiology
• Art
• Brain Diseases > physiopathology
• Language Disorders > psychology
• Language
• Religion and Medicine

Genre/Form

Trivia and miscellanea

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Where did it all begin? -- The neuroanatomy of emotion -- Language and the human brain -- The other way of using language -- The breakdown of language -- Music and the brain -- Neurotheology I : epilepsy -- Neurotheology II : other neurological conditions -- God, music, and the poetry of the brain.

ISBN

• 0801884810 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780801884818 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006012325

OCLC

• 67282551
• SCSB-9927646

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library