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  title info:
    title: Imagination and the meaningful brain
  name:
    name part: Modell, Arnold H.
    name part: 1924-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2003
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages)
  abstract: 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 mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not the same as information processing. The intrapsychic complexities of human psychology, as observed through introspection and empathic knowledge of other minds, must be added to the third-person perspective of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.Assuming that other mammals are conscious and conscious of their feelings, Modell emphasizes evolutionary continuities and discontinuities of emotion. The limbic system, the emotional brain, is of ancient origin, but only humans have the capacity for generative imagination. By means of metaphor, we are able to interpret, displace, and transform our feelings. To bolster his argument, Modell draws on a variety of disciplines--including psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. Only by integrating the objectivity of neuroscience, the phenomenology of introspection, and the intersubjective knowledge of psychoanalysis, he claims, will we be able fully to understand how the mind works.
  note: Arnold H. Modell.
  note: "A Bradford book."
  subject:
    topic: Imagination
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Emotions and cognition
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY/General
  classification: BF408 .M58 2003eb
  classification: 150.19/5
  identifier: 9780262280044
  identifier: 0262280043
  identifier: 0585450676
  identifier: 9780585450674
  identifier: 9780262134255
  identifier: 026213425X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 030530
    record change date: 20221121162452.7
    record identifier: in00004601394
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng