{"title":"Paul B. Armstrong","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"stories-and-the-brain-9781421437750","title":"Stories and the Brain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book explains how the brain interacts with the social world—and why stories matter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In \u003ci\u003eStories and the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArmstrong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extension of his previous book, \u003ci\u003eHow Literature Plays with the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul B. Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51473089790294,"sku":"9781421437750","price":36.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781421437750.jpg?v=1759446868"},{"product_id":"stories-and-the-brain-johns-hopkins-university-press-9781421437743-the-neuroscience-of-narrative-paul-b-armstrong","title":"Stories and the Brain","description":"","brand":"Paul B. Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52227807543638,"sku":"9781421437743","price":99.86,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781421437743.jpg?v=1767742343"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bookshop.ee\/collections\/paul-b-armstrong.oembed","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}