Poetry and Neuroscience:

نویسندگان

  • James Wilkes
  • Sophie K Scott
چکیده

Dialogues and collaborations between scientists and nonscientists are now widely understood as important elements of scientific research and public engagement with science. In recognition of this, the authors, a neuroscientist and a poet, use a dialogical approach to extend questions and ideas first shared during a lab-based poetry residency. They recorded a conversation and then expanded it into an essayistic form, allowing divergent disciplinary understandings and uses of experiment, noise, voice and emotion to be articulated, shared and questioned.

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دوره 24  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2016