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The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity: Our Predictive Brain

The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity: Our Predictive Brain

Fuster, Joaquin M.

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1107027756
ISBN13: 9781107027756
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 29 2013
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Awards: PROSE
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.

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