Ebook {Epub PDF} Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

JONAH LEHRER is editor at large for Seed magazine and the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist. A graduate of Columbia University and a Rhodes Scholar, Lehrer has worked in the lab of Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and has written for The New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe/5().  · The author of the book, Jonah Lehrer, used to be a technician in a neuroscience lab where he was trying to understand how the mind remembers. It was at that time that he began reading Proust. He realised, to his surprise, that what Proust was describing in prose coincided with the new neuroscientific discoveries about memory/5.  · JONAH LEHRER is the New York Times bestselling author of A Book About Love, How We Decide, and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. His writing has also appeared in Wired, The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Nature, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and www.doorway.ru: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Jonah Lehrer is a Contributing Editor at Wired and a frequent contributor to The New www.doorway.ru writes the Head Case column for The Wall Street Journal and regularly appears on WNYC's www.doorway.ru writing has also appeared in Nature, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American and www.doorway.ru's the author of two previous books, Proust Was A Neuroscientist and How We Decide. Jonah Lehrer worked in the lab of Nobel-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and is an accomplished science writer, as well as the proprietor of the blog Frontal Cortex. Walt Whitman starts it off. Jonah Lehrer Wasn't the Only Journalist Shaping His Conclusions -- New York Magazine - Nymag. Proust Wasn't a Neuroscientist. Neither was Jonah Lehrer. By Boris Kachka. Photo: Nick Cunard.

The author of the book, Jonah Lehrer, used to be a technician in a neuroscience lab where he was trying to understand how the mind remembers. It was at that time that he began reading Proust. He realised, to his surprise, that what Proust was describing in prose coincided with the new neuroscientific discoveries about memory. In "Proust was a Neuroscientist", Jonah Lehrer eloquently steers the reader through the intertwined histories of art and science, vividly illustrating how art often trumps science, finding conclusions before hypotheses are even posed in a lab. Lehrer should be commended for his beautiful style and effortless story telling ability. Well done!. Proust Was a Neuroscientist is a non-fiction book written by Jonah Lehrer, first published in In it, Lehrer argues that many 20th and 21st-century discoveries of neuroscience are actually re-discoveries of insights made earlier by various artists, including Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Paul Cézanne, Igor Stravinsky, and, as alluded to in the title, Marcel Proust.