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As Jonah Lehrer demonstrates in this sparkling debut, science is not
the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding
the brain, art got there first.Taking a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-
century artists -- a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful
of novelists -- Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth
about the mind that neuroscience is only now rediscovering. We learn,
for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how
George Eliot understood the brain's malleability; how the French chef
Escoffier intuited umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the
subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure
of language. It's a riveting tale of art trumping science again and
again.

An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science
writing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more
closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to
brilliant effect.

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