Mark your return to the District this Monday, Jan. 12, with a book signing hosted by Jonah Lehrer, Rhodes Scholar and magazine editor. Lehrer will discuss the intersection of science and art, drawing from research published in his book, ‘Proust was a Neuroscientist.’

According to The Corcoran:

THE SCIENCE OF ART

Monday, January 12, 2009 7:00 PM

Book signing

Do you think art and science don’t go hand in hand? Think again. Rhodes Scholar and editor-at-large of Seed Magazine, Jonah Lehrer proves otherwise. After working along Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and in the kitchens of top New York City restaurants Le Cirque 2000 and Le Bernardin, Lehrer presents his research and the idea behind the use of art as a means to investigate the mind. Considering the methods behind writers Marcel Proust and Walt Whitman, painter Paul Cezanne, and 19th-century chef August Escoffier, to name a few, Lehrer describes the mind from the inside. Lehrer explains his discoveries and more in his most recent book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist. A book signing follows the talk.

Members: $15.00 Public: $20.00