Brain for Innovation - The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking

Min W. Jung offers a new understanding of the neural basis of innovation in terms of humans' exceptional capacity for imagination and high-level abstraction.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Hippocampus and Imagination
1. Hippocampus: From Memory to Imagination
2. False Memory
3. Place Cells and Hippocampal Replay
Part II: The Neural Symphony of Imagination
4. Neural Circuits of the Hippocampus
5. Value-Based Decision-Making
6. Remembering Rewarding Futures
7. The Evolution of Imagination
Part III: The Neural Foundation of Abstraction
8. Abstract Thinking and Neocortex
9. Prefrontal Cortex
10. The Human Revolution and Associated Brain Changes
11. Deep Neural Network
Part IV: Beyond Imagination and Abstraction
12. Sharing Ideas and Knowledge through Language
13. On Creativity
14. The Future of Innovation
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Dentate Gyrus
Appendix 2: Value-Coding Neurons
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Min W. Jung is a vice director of the Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. His primary interests are the neural mechanisms of memory, imagination, and decision making.

Summary

Min W. Jung offers a new understanding of the neural basis of innovation in terms of humans’ exceptional capacity for imagination and high-level abstraction.

Product details

• Authors: Min W. Jung
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9780231213363
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21336-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, Cognitive Science