A Brain for Innovation : : The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking / / Min W. Jung.
What sets humans apart from other animals? Perhaps more than anything else, it is the capacity for innovation. The accumulation of discoveries throughout history, big and small, has enabled us to build global civilizations and gain power to shape our environment. But what makes humans as a species s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 50 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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