Cognition, Culture, and the Arts : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrating, Understanding, and Reading. Este artículo no está disponible.Cognition, Culture, and the Arts : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrating, Understanding, and Reading

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.

Peter Hanenberg is a Professor for German and Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, vice rector for research and innovation and director of CADOS, Católica Doctoral School. He coordinates the research group on cognition and translatability at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture in Lisbon. His research focuses on the literary representation of the idea of Europe and on the intersection of cognition and culture.

Wolfgang Hallet is a former Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. He was a founding member of the Executive Board of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture and the Head of its Teaching Centre. In literary studies he has researched and published on contemporary novels, the spatial turn, the multimodal novel, and methodologies of intermediality and multimodality.