TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fuster,Joaquin M.
TI  - The neuroscience of freedom and creativity: our predictive brain 
SN  - 9781139226691 (ebook)
AV  - QP360.5 .F88 2013
U1  - 612.8/233 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Cognitive neuroscience
KW  - Free will and determinism
KW  - Creative ability
KW  - Brain
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139226691
ER  -