The editorial series Sinapsi [synapses] collects texts published in the journal Nodes since its foundation, as well as unpublished content. It delivers different writing forms: essays, interviews, scientific articles and of wide circulation. 

The intention is to make accessible to readers, on the one hand, contents that are no longer available and, on the other hand, topics and writing never published before.

ABSTRACT VOL.4​

Literary criticism, until the advent of neuroscience, has always recognised the value of literary texts by assessing their stylistic-philological qualities and enhancing the links between the work and the personal experience of the author of reference.
With the onset of new disciplines and areas of investigation – such as neuroaesthetics, neurocognitive poetics and digital humanities – the boundaries of interpretation of the aesthetic experience of literature have expanded.

Starting precisely from this evidence, Alberto Casadei – literary critic, writer and professor of Italian Literature at the University of Pisa – tells us how the new frontiers of neuroscience can contribute to the examination of literary works, providing new insights and supplementing the shortcomings of the classical interpretative models still widely used in the academic world today.