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Rethinking Thought
Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists
Taschenbuch von Laura Otis
Sprache: Englisch

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Rethinking Thought compares the insights of creative thinkers with neuroscientific findings to show how people vary in their uses of visual mental imagery and verbal language. Written by a neuroscientist-turned literary scholar, it conjoins science and art to explore innovative thinking.
Rethinking Thought compares the insights of creative thinkers with neuroscientific findings to show how people vary in their uses of visual mental imagery and verbal language. Written by a neuroscientist-turned literary scholar, it conjoins science and art to explore innovative thinking.
Über den Autor
Laura Otis is a Professor of English at Emory University and a former MacArthur Fellow. With an MA in Neuroscience and a PhD in Comparative Literature, she compares the creative thinking of scientists and literary writers. Otis is the author of Organic Memory, Membranes, Networking, and Müller's Lab; the translator of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's Vacation Stories; and the editor of Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • Chapter One: Who's the "You"?

  • Chapter Two: Words Enable and Disable Thought: Michael Holquist, David Krakauer, Lynn Margulis, and Jeff Martin

  • Chapter Three: The Vast Range of Visual Worlds: Barry Shur, Temple Grandin, Mary Welty, Hugh Wilson, and Natasha Trethewey

  • Chapter Four: The Space of Language: Kate Thorpe, Jonathan Culler, and N. Katherine Hayles

  • Chapter Five: Beyond Visual and Verbal Thinking: Linda Richardson, Nicholas Gessler, David Finkelstein, and Barbara Zettel

  • Chapter Six: Thinking between Minds: Gerd Gigerenzer, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Venkat Narayan

  • Chapter Seven: Creative Conversions: Salman Rushdie, Jason Rohrer, Edward G. Jones, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Rigoberto A Gonzalez, and Harriet Goren

  • Chapter Eight: Learning to Think: Mark Bauerlein, Diana Richmond, Jay Hosler, and Scott Gilbert

  • Chapter Nine: Fluid Individuals, Evolving Minds

  • Appendix

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780190213473
ISBN-10: 0190213477
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Otis, Laura
Hersteller: OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Laura Otis
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.11.2015
Gewicht: 0,409 kg
Artikel-ID: 108610996
Über den Autor
Laura Otis is a Professor of English at Emory University and a former MacArthur Fellow. With an MA in Neuroscience and a PhD in Comparative Literature, she compares the creative thinking of scientists and literary writers. Otis is the author of Organic Memory, Membranes, Networking, and Müller's Lab; the translator of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's Vacation Stories; and the editor of Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • Chapter One: Who's the "You"?

  • Chapter Two: Words Enable and Disable Thought: Michael Holquist, David Krakauer, Lynn Margulis, and Jeff Martin

  • Chapter Three: The Vast Range of Visual Worlds: Barry Shur, Temple Grandin, Mary Welty, Hugh Wilson, and Natasha Trethewey

  • Chapter Four: The Space of Language: Kate Thorpe, Jonathan Culler, and N. Katherine Hayles

  • Chapter Five: Beyond Visual and Verbal Thinking: Linda Richardson, Nicholas Gessler, David Finkelstein, and Barbara Zettel

  • Chapter Six: Thinking between Minds: Gerd Gigerenzer, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Venkat Narayan

  • Chapter Seven: Creative Conversions: Salman Rushdie, Jason Rohrer, Edward G. Jones, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Rigoberto A Gonzalez, and Harriet Goren

  • Chapter Eight: Learning to Think: Mark Bauerlein, Diana Richmond, Jay Hosler, and Scott Gilbert

  • Chapter Nine: Fluid Individuals, Evolving Minds

  • Appendix

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780190213473
ISBN-10: 0190213477
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Otis, Laura
Hersteller: OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Laura Otis
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.11.2015
Gewicht: 0,409 kg
Artikel-ID: 108610996
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