cognitive science

Take It Apart by the Seams: Vera Tobin on Your Brain on Fiction

Take It Apart by the Seams: Vera Tobin on Your Brain on Fiction

“Dumb-smart stories”, fake news, serial narratives, and surprise endings: an engaging conversation about cognitive bias with author Vera Tobin.

‘Elements of Surprise’ and the Pleasures of Being Had

‘Elements of Surprise’ and the Pleasures of Being Had

Vera Tobin's work helps dispel 20th-century Freudian notions that we are made up of many inexplicable facets, that our motives are unknown to us, and that we repress all that we cannot deal with.

Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf