TY - BOOK ID - 85646121 TI - The neuroscience of freedom and creativity : our predictive brain PY - 2013 SN - 1107424267 113922669X 1107027756 1107608627 9781107608627 9781139226691 9781107027756 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cognitive neuroscience. KW - Free will and determinism. KW - Creative ability. KW - Brain KW - Cerebrum KW - Mind KW - Central nervous system KW - Head KW - Creativeness KW - Creativity KW - Ability KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Compatibilism KW - Determinism and free will KW - Determinism and indeterminism KW - Free agency KW - Freedom and determinism KW - Freedom of the will KW - Indeterminism KW - Liberty of the will KW - Determinism (Philosophy) KW - Cognitive neuropsychology KW - Cognitive science KW - Neuropsychology KW - Philosophy. KW - Cognitive neuroscience KW - Free will and determinism KW - Creative ability KW - Brain - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85646121 AB - 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. ER -