Cognitive Science and Medieval Studies: An Introduction

Juliana Dresvina

ISBN 10: 1786836742 / ISBN 13: 9781786836748

Editore: University of Wales Press, 2021

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Riassunto:

What is the value of mapping how neurons fire when engaging with literature and art? How can we understand psychological stress as a historically specific phenomenon? What can medieval mystics teach us about contemplation and cognition? With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterized by a ‘cognitive turn’. For their part, the humanities play an important role in forming popular ideas of the human mind and in analyzing the way cognitive, psychological, and emotional phenomena are experienced in time and space. Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies aims to inspire medievalists and other scholars within the humanities to engage with the tools and investigative methodologies deriving from cognitive sciences. Contributors explore topics including medieval and modern philosophy of mind, the psychology of religion, the history of psychological medicine, and the re-emergence of the body in cognition.

Informazioni sull'autore: Juliana Dresvina is a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. Victoria Blud is a research associate at the University of York.

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Titolo: Cognitive Science and Medieval Studies: An ...
Casa editrice: University of Wales Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Hardback
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