Imagination and the meaningful brain /

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The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Modell, Arnold H., 1924-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Bewusstsein.
Imagination.
Meaning (Psychology)
Emotions and cognition.
Mind and body.
Imagination
Brain > physiology
Cognition > physiology
Emotions > physiology
Signification (Psychologie)
Émotions et cognition.
imagination.
77.31 cognition.
PSYCHOLOGY > Movements > Psychoanalysis.
Emotions and cognition
Mind and body
Hirnfunktion
Psychoanalyse
Verbeelding.
Emoties.
Intentionaliteit.
Introspectie.
Psychoanalyse.
Psychoanalysis.
Cognitive science.
Neurosciences.
Émotion.
Processus cognitif.
Traitement de l'information par le cerveau.
PHILOSOPHY/General
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Uncertain Steps toward a Biology of Meaning; 2 Metaphor, Memory, and Unconscious Imagination; 3 Imagination's Autonomy; 4 The Corporeal Imagination; 5 Intentionality and the Self; 6 Directing the Imagination; 7 The Uniqueness of Human Feelings; 8 Feelings and Value; 9 Imagining Other Minds; 10 Mirror Neurons, Gestures, and the Origins of Metaphor; 11 Experience and the Mind-Body Problem; Notes; References; Index.

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