Min W. Jung

A Brain for Innovation

The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 164mm x 242mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780231213363
• ISBN-10: 0231213360
• Artikelnr.: 68764935

Autorenporträt

Min W. Jung

Inhaltsangabe

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