Online seminar “Neuroscience and Narrative: reading, writing, and the brain”
What can science tell us about reading and writing literature?
The Open University’s Contemporary Cultures of Writing research group presents a lively conversation with Christopher Comer and Ashley Taggart about recent advances in scientific understanding of the brain and how we engage with literature.
Their book, Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination explores the connections between neuroscience and narrative.
Is it possible to know what’s happening in our heads when we read? When do we write? In what ways does literature tap into deep structures of memory and emotion, the very structures that lie at the heart of our humanity?
Our conversation will be facilitated by Lania Knight, Open University Lecturer in Creative Writing, and there will be time for an audience Q&A as well.
Christopher Comer is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Montana, USA.
Ashley Taggart is a Lecturer in the School of English Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland.
This seminar is produced by the Open University’s Contemporary Cultures of Writing research group. You can find out more at the group’s website, here.
Time: 12:00 — 13:00 EST
Free!
