LEADER 03644oam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910779829303321 005 20190503073322.0 010 $a0-262-30328-0 010 $a1-282-09707-5 010 $a0-262-28004-3 010 $a9786612097072 010 $a0-585-45067-6 035 $a(CKB)111056485416656 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176589 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153806 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176589 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205898 035 $a(PQKB)11077364 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338500 035 $a(OCoLC)52341122$z(OCoLC)182530410$z(OCoLC)488499298$z(OCoLC)532395069$z(OCoLC)614958952$z(OCoLC)648223370$z(OCoLC)702106522$z(OCoLC)722564182$z(OCoLC)793523384$z(OCoLC)888539612$z(OCoLC)939263600$z(OCoLC)961552522$z(OCoLC)961681629$z(OCoLC)962674170$z(OCoLC)962681874$z(OCoLC)1037460792$z(OCoLC)1087262239 035 $a(OCoLC-P)52341122 035 $a(MaCbMITP)3666 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338500 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173553 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL209707 035 $a(OCoLC)939263600 035 $a(PPN)170239799 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485416656 100 $a20030530d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImagination and the meaningful brain /$fArnold H. Modell 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ2003 215 $axiv, 253 p 300 $a"A Bradford book." 311 $a0-262-63343-4 311 $a0-262-13425-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-233) and index. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aImagination 606 $aMeaning (Psychology) 606 $aEmotions and cognition 606 $aMind and body 610 $aPHILOSOPHY/General 615 0$aImagination. 615 0$aMeaning (Psychology) 615 0$aEmotions and cognition. 615 0$aMind and body. 676 $a150.19/5 700 $aModell$b Arnold H.$f1924-$0162095 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779829303321 996 $aImagination and the meaningful brain$93753380 997 $aUNINA