El telar mágico de la mente es la biografía del prestigioso neurocientífico Joaquín M. Fuster, una semblanza excepcional que avanza en paralelo con la historia de las disciplinas vinculadas al estudio de la memoria y el conocimiento. A partir del relato sobre su vida, Fuster nos presenta a médicos, biólogos, filósofos, estudiosos de la teoría general de sistemas o de la cibernética, naturalistas y científicos que de una manera u otra han contribuido a la que ha sido su gran pasión...

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. This book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the world's authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the entirety of our knowledge is encoded by relations, and thus by connections, in neuronal networks of our cerebra...

Joaquín M. Fuster is an eminent cognitive neuroscientist whose research over the last five decades has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behaviour. This book provides his view on the eternal question of whether we have free will. Based on his seminal work on the functions of the prefrontal cortex in decision-making, planning, creativity, working memory, and language, Professor Fuster argues that the liberty or freedom to c...