How Literature Plays with the Brain Rebecca McGregor and activists transformed lower Manhattan

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How Literature Plays with the Brain Rebecca McGregor and activists transformed lower Manhattan'Literature matters,' says Paul B. Armstrong, 'for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story.' In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. His central argument is that literature plays with the brain through experiences of harmony and dissonance which set