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The genius engine : where memory, reason, passion, violence, and creativity intersect in the human brain hbk.
The genius engine : where memory, reason, passion, violence, and creativity intersect in the human brain hbk.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and indexSummary: Although other primates and many other animals have working memory, the human brain...
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- 資料種別
- 図書
- ISBN
- 97804712623980471262390
- 巻次・部編番号
- hbk.
- 著者・編者
- Kathleen Stein
- 出版年月日等
- c2007
- 出版年(W3CDTF)
- 2007
- 大きさ
- 25 cm
- 出版地(国名コード)
- us
- 本文の言語コード
- en
- LCC
- 対象利用者
- 一般
- 一般注記
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and indexSummary: Although other primates and many other animals have working memory, the human brain gives our species a unique ability to reason, remember and build models of the future. Our brain-specifically, the prefrontal cortex-defines our prevailing spirit, distinctive character, talent, aptitude and inclination. Our genius. In The Genius Engine, Kathleen Stein investigates the wonders of our prefrontal cortex, or PFC. Drawing on her decades of experience as a science and technology editor and writer, she deftly explains how the PFC gives us the special flexibility to update information from moment to moment and to make long-range plans; how it controls our artistic and athletic intelligence; and how it determines our moral compass. She delves into the mundane and often taken-for-granted capacities of the PFC-such as multitasking, humor and empathy-and probes the social problems caused by a dysfunctional PFC. Examining how the PFC orchestrates our entire mental universe, The Genius Engine shows why some indivSummary: Stein reveals the extensive reconfiguration of the PFC during puberty and why this turmoil within the PFC informs how teens judge others. This adolescent brain remodeling explains why teenagers tend to find life so unfair: theyʾre unable to read social situations efficiently during a period when peer acceptance is the epicenter of their lives. Stein also provides examples of the long-term consequences of PFC injuries. Babies with certain PFC injuries tend to grow up friendless and emotionless. In adults, injury can cause a variety of deficits, including difficulties distinguishing whether a voice is cheerful or morose. Once the damage is done to the prefrontal tissue, no other part of the brain can assume its functions. Taking us to the forefront of neuroscience, The Genius Engine provides a mesmerizing look into the area of our brain that defines what it means to be human-the part that gives us not only our agile intelligence but also our emotions, morality and rules of social conductSummary: Includes information on abstract thought, aggression, amygdala, Anterior cingulated cortex, antisocial personality disorder (APD), attention, brain mapping, Todd Braver, children, Jonathan Cohen, computers and computer modeling, creativity, Richard Davidson, dopamine, dorsolateral PFC, emotions, fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), John Gabrieli, Vinod Goel, Jeremy Gray, hemispheric asymmetry, inhibition, intelligence, lateral PFC, left PFC system, memory, monkeys, moral values and dilemmas, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), neurons, orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), personality, prefrontal cortex (PFC), reason, reward and punishment, right PFC system, social cognition, traumatic brain injuries, violence, women, working memory, etcHTTP:URL=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006033566.html Information=Table of contents onlyHTTP:URL=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2006033566-b.html Information=Contributor biographical informationHTTP:URL=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2006033566-d.html Information=Publisher description
- 連携機関・データベース
- 国立情報学研究所 : CiNii Research
- 提供元機関・データベース
- CiNii Books
- NACSIS書誌ID(NCID)
- https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB26833589 : BB26833589
- LC control number
- 2006033566