The neuroscience of freedom and creativity :
Fuster, Joaquin M.,
The neuroscience of freedom and creativity : our predictive brain / The Neuroscience of Freedom & Creativity Joaquin M. Fuster. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Professor Joaquín 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, working memory, and language, Professor Fuster argues that the liberty or freedom to choose between alternatives is a function of the cerebral cortex, under prefrontal control, in its reciprocal interaction with the environment. Freedom is therefore inseparable from that circular relationship. The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity is a fascinating inquiry into the cerebral foundation of our ability to choose between alternative actions and to freely lead creative plans to their goal.
9781139226691 (ebook)
Cognitive neuroscience.
Free will and determinism.
Creative ability.
Brain--Philosophy.
QP360.5 / .F88 2013
612.8/233
The neuroscience of freedom and creativity : our predictive brain / The Neuroscience of Freedom & Creativity Joaquin M. Fuster. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Professor Joaquín 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, working memory, and language, Professor Fuster argues that the liberty or freedom to choose between alternatives is a function of the cerebral cortex, under prefrontal control, in its reciprocal interaction with the environment. Freedom is therefore inseparable from that circular relationship. The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity is a fascinating inquiry into the cerebral foundation of our ability to choose between alternative actions and to freely lead creative plans to their goal.
9781139226691 (ebook)
Cognitive neuroscience.
Free will and determinism.
Creative ability.
Brain--Philosophy.
QP360.5 / .F88 2013
612.8/233