What novels reveal about our brains | Daniel Glaser

Psychological thrillers are a great way of understanding the skewed perception of first-person consciousnessWith the hotly anticipated Into The Water by Paula Hawkins out next month, the interest in psychological thrillers isn’t going away. The genre’s preoccupations are shared with neuroscience - in particular, how we process memory. But it’s not recent breakthroughs within neuroscience and psychology that make it such a rich seam for novelists.In fact, there haven’t rea