Peter Ulric Tse (Chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain

Gebundenes Buch

Free Imagination

The Deep Roots of Creativity, Freedom and Meaning in the Human Brain and Mind

Beschreibung

Free Imagination argues that the brain's capacity to imagine is the fundamental basis of human Free Will. Laws of physics need not apply in our internal simulations, so virtually anything is possible there.

Autor

Peter Ulric Tse is currently chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, USA. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1984 with a degree in physics/mathematics. Until 1992 he lived abroad, teaching schoolchildren in Nepal, then studying philosophy at the University of Konstanz. In 1992 he began his studies in cognitive psychology at Harvard University where he received a PhD under the guidance of Patrick Cavanagh and Ken Nakayama. From 1999 until 2001 he was a post-doc in the monkey fMRI lab of Nikos Logothetis at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen. He has been a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth since 2001.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780198901181
• ISBN-10: 0198901186
• Artikelnr.: 71530120