MISREADING MINDS
What does Proust have to do with brain science? Plenty, say two books.
Jenny Davidson
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
Houghton Mifflin
$24.00 List Price
In a mesmerizing film clip from 1975, the British anatomist John Zachary Young dissects a squid just smaller than his forearm. (The clip can be seen online at http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/NeuroSci/courses/bio330/squid.html.) Young wields a pair of shears with considerable brio as he cuts open the mantle cavity and uncovers the nerves that radiate, starlike, beneath the skin. Some forty years earlier, shortly
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