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Perspectives on Neuroscience
Published on: July 31, 2007
Poetry and Neuroscience: : An Interdisciplinary Conversation
James Wilkes1, Sophie K Scott2
1Durham University.
Abstract:
Dialogues and collaborations between scientists and non-scientists 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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