Érase una vez en tu cerebro

The book you have in your hands will explain what happens in your brain when you discover a story and why you get excited about some and not others. How can it be that simple lyrics transport you to remote, unknown or even non-existent places? Why are there invented characters that mark you deeper than many people you have met? How do they manage to move you, make you laugh or cry? Have you thought that there are fictions that influence your actions more than reality itself? Once upon a time in your brain is an essay halfway between the scientific and the humanistic, the informative and the romantic, which answers all these questions with neuroscience and a varied and rich sample of narrative works. Since the dawn of humanity, we have been fascinated by stories in any format: songs, novels, movies, comics, podcast... This book, which is to some extent a history of stories, will make you love them even more by revealing why the good ones catch you and settle in your head forever.