Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative: Paul A. Armstrong. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. Paperback, USD $37.95, Hardcover, $97.95, E-book, $37.95. ISBN 978-1421437743.
The article focuses on Paul A. Armstrong’s book *Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative*, which presents a neurophenomenological model linking storytelling experiences with neurobiological processes involved in cognition, time, action, and intersubjectivity. Armstrong argues that narra...
| Publicado en: | World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution Vol. 82; no. 5; pp. 362 - 365 |
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2026
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