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(2016) Influences on the Aufbau, Dordrecht, Springer.
The age of insight
the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain from 1900 to the present. by eric b. Kandel
Allan Janik
pp. 267-279
The "rock star of neuroscience," as Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel has aptly been termed, has produced a provocative multi-disciplinary blockbuster whose many facets can scarcely be adequately summarized, let alone analysed, in a brief review such as this. His immensely learned effort to reconcile the "two cultures" encapsulates a lifetime devoted at once into research into the biological basis of memory and refined appreciation of art. The Age of Insight consists of a mammoth argument, based on the premise that the sciences and the arts can learn from one another and constituted by seven elaborately interconnected elements. Thus Kandel links
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21876-2_14
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Janik, A. (2016)., The age of insight: the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain from 1900 to the present. by eric b. Kandel, in C. Damböck (ed.), Influences on the Aufbau, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 267-279.
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