Parallel processing and the human mind: Re-understanding consciousness with James Joyce's Ulysses.
Research on neural models for cognition suggests that thought is far from a simply serial process. Nonetheless, there has been relatively little work on which parameters govern just what aspects of thought are parallel and what are serial. Clearly, speech as such is serial. In consequence, interior...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Literary Semantics Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 149 - 165 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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De Gruyter
2013
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