Screen LibraryThe genius engine：where memory, reason, passion, violence, and creativity intersect in the human brain
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John Wiley & Sons,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 292 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
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9780471262398 (cloth : alk. paper) 0471262390 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R338 |
| CLC: | R338.2 |
| Call Number: | R338.2/S819 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index. Memory: the DNA of consciousness -- Reason: logic, laughter, and looking within -- Passion: in cold blood? -- Violence: morality and the minds of the killers -- Creativity: art as a window into the brain -- Silicon minds: the rise of the machine genius. 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 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 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, prefront |