Proust Was a Neuroscientist

<p>Is science the only path to knowledge?<br><br>In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers painters and composers Lehrer shows us how artists have discovered truths about the human mind - real tangible truths - that science 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 C&#233;zanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Virginia Woolf pierced the mysteries of consciousness. It's a riveting tale of art trumping science again and again.</p>