Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity - Our Predictive Brain

A scientific, uniquely factual account of the role of the brain in freedom and creativity.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Evolutionary roots of freedom; 3. Anatomy of cognition; 4. The perception/action cycle; 5. Memory of the future; 6. Freedom in speech; 7. Liberty, responsibility, and social order.

About the author

Joaquín M. Fuster is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Brain Research Institute and Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Fuster is an eminent neuroscientist with a career spanning six decades. He is the first to have discovered and described 'memory cells' in the primate brain. He is author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and three books: Memory in the Cerebral Cortex (1995), Cortex and Mind (2003) and The Prefrontal Cortex (1980, and 4th edition, 2008).

Summary

In a fascinating exploration of the question of free will, eminent cognitive neuroscientist, Joaquín Fuster, argues that the liberty or freedom to choose between alternatives is a function of the nervous system, especially the cerebral cortex, in its reciprocal interaction with the environment. Freedom is inseparable from that circular relationship.

Product details

• Authors: Joaquín M Fuster, Joaquin M. Fuster, Joaquín M. Fuster
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2013
• EAN: 9781107027756
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02775-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology