The neuroscience of freedom and creativity : our predictive brain

Fuster, Joaquin M.

Book 2013

[Publisher-supplied data] Professor Joaquin M. Fuster is an eminent cognitive neuroscientist whose research over the last five decades has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behaviour. This book provides his view on the eternal question of whether we have free will. Based on his seminal work on the functions of the prefrontal cortex in decision making, planning, creativity, workin...

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Brain Philosophy

Cognitive neuroscience

Creative ability

Free will and determinism

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ISBN:

9781107608627
9781107027756
1107608627
1107027756

Description:

xvii, 268 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Evolutionary roots of freedom. Evolution of the cerebral cortex ; Individual development of the cerebral cortex ; Neural Darwinism ; The two temporal faces of liberty ; Evolution opens man and woman to their future ; Conclusions
3. Anatomy of cognition. The cognit ; A cortical geography of memory? ; Freedom of information in the cerebral cortex ; Of brains and computers ; Conclusions
4. The perception/action cycle. Biology of the cycle ; The cerebral cortex in the cycle ; Cycle dynamics: enter emotion ; Freedom in the cycle ; The rewards of freedom ; Neuroeconomics: money ; Conclusions
5. Memory of the future. Decision-making ; Planning ; Creative intelligence ; Conclusions
6. Freedom in speech. Prediction ; The creative nature of language ; Neurobiology of language ; Speech in the PA cycle: the voice of liberty ; Conclusion
7. Liberty, responsibility, and social order. Trust ; Values ; Pathology of liberty ; Culture ; Conclusions

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2013007947

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967444

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