Torsa Ghosal Out of Mind Psychology Books sku-348607962

Torsa Ghosal's hardcover Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative is listed under Psychology Books as sku-348607962. The book examines the relationship between how fiction presents thought and scientific accounts of cognition.

It discusses contemporary works that use language, maps, photographs and other images, arguing that stories both reflect and help revise historical beliefs about the mind. Ghosal treats narrative forms and cognitive-scientific frameworks as developing together and influencing each other.

Drawing on narrative theory, multimodality studies, cognitive sciences and disability studies, she considers memory, reading, perception, abstraction, computation, and senses of place and self. Her readings include works by Kamila Shamsie, Aleksandar Hemon, Mark Haddon, Lance Olsen, Steve Tomasula and Jonathan Safran Foer, in the context of twenty-first-century social, technological and environmental change.