Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society)

by Paul Thagard

Book Overview

How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Neural mechanisms are used to explain mental operations for analogy, action, intention, language, and the self.

Brain-Mind develops a brilliant account of mental operations using promising new ideas from theoretical neuroscience. Single neurons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197618596
• ISBN13: 9780197618592
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"