Cognition, Culture, and the Arts

The volume shows in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts contributes to the understanding of human cognition. It explores evolutionary substrates of narrative; the interfaces between culture, stories and cognition; the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of reading; and other techniques of sense-making in music and the arts.

The aim of the volume is to show in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts can contribute to a better understanding of human cognition. The collection of essays is questioning whether culture is exclusively human and discusses evolutionary substrates of narrative and the interfaces between culture, stories and cognition. The contributions examine the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of literary reading and analyse other techniques of sense-making in the arts through imagined dialogues and the experience of ambiguity. The final contributions are dealing with musical cognition, the relation between music, aesthetics and cognition.

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