postmedieval 3.3: Cognitive Alterities/Neuromedievalism
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Cognitive alterities: From cultural studies to neuroscience and back again (Jane Chance)
ESSAYS: THEORY
Re-visioning the past: Neuromedievalism and the neural circuits of vision (Ashby Kinch)
Neurobiological alphabets: Language origins and the problem of universals (Matthew Boyd Goldie)
Once more with feeling: Tactility and cognitive alterity, medieval and modern (Lara Farina)
ESSAYS: NARRATIVE
‘Mind like wickerwork’: The neuroplastic aesthetics of Chaucer’s House of Tidings (Ashby Kinch)
Imitating Christ as a meme (Mayumi Taguchi)
Manual thinking: John Mombaer’s meditations, the neuroscience of the imagination and the future of the humanities (Sara Ritchey)
EDITOR’S RESPONSE
A cautionary note from a neuroscientist’s perspective: Interpreting from mirror neurons and neuroplasticity (Antony D. Passaro)
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Going mental (Aranye Fradenburg)
[see postmedieval site at Palgrave for more information on this and other issues]
