How not to go gently.
Drawing insights from developmental neuroscience and individual-differences psychology, Levitin attempts to challenge received notions of the incremental deficits that accompany the ageing brain, by offering a seductive alternative narrative. Levitin reconnects old age with wisdom, since, as we age,...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 149; no. 5509; pp. 47 - 48 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
2/28/2020
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