Brain, mind, consciousness: there have been huge advances in cognitive science over the last decades. Jonathan Bate is one of a small but growing number of arts scholars who are beginning to wonder about the application of cognitive science to our understanding of the creative process. He discovers that while brain scientists have much to teach literary critics, literature has a thing or two to share with them. With Susan Greenfield, Antonio Damasio, Semir Zeki, Kay Redfield Jamison and David Lodge.