TY - BOOK ID - 138617121 TI - Stories and the Brain : The Neuroscience of Narrative PY - 2020 SN - 1421437767 PB - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Neurosciences and the arts. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Psychological aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138617121 AB - "Neuroscience sheds light on the human proclivity for storytelling. Humans would not produce narratives so prolifically if they weren't somehow good for human brains and embodied interactions with the world. The author connects neuroscience with humanistic narrative theory. He explains how stories coordinate time, represent embodied action, and promote social collaboration, which are all fundamental to the brain-body interactions through which humans evolved as a species and constructed the cultures they inhabit"-- ER -