A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Hippocampus and Imagination
Chapter One. Hippocampus: From Memory to Imagination
Chapter Two. False Memory
Chapter Three. Place Cells and Hippocampal Replay
Part II: The Neural Symphony of Imagination
Chapter Four. Neural Circuits of the Hippocampus
Chapter Five. Value-Based Decision-Making
Chapter 6. Remembering Rewarding Futures
Chapter Seven. The Evolution of Imagination
Part III: The Neural Foundation of Abstraction
Chapter Eight. Abstract Thinking and Neocortex
Chapter Nine. Prefrontal Cortex
Chapter Ten. The Human Revolution and Associated Brain Changes
Chapter Eleven. Deep Neural Network
Part IV: Beyond Imagination and Abstraction
Chapter Twelve. Sharing Ideas and Knowledge through Language
Chapter Thirteen. On Creativity
Chapter Fourteen. The Future of Innovation
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Dentate Gyrus
Appendix 2: Value-Coding Neurons
Notes
Bibliography
Index