Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
By- Bernard Baars, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA, USA
- Nicole Gage, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
This is the fully revised and updated second edition of the very sucessful introductory textbook on cognitive neuroscience. Written by two leading experts in the field, this book takes a unique thematic approach to introduce concepts of cognitive neurosciences, guiding students along a clear path to understand the latest findings whether or not they have a background in neuroscience. New to this edition are Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience text boxes; each one focuses on a leading researcher and their topic of expertise. There is a new chapter on Genes and Molecules of Cognition, and all other chapters have been thoroughly revised, based on the most recent discoveries.
Audience
Undergraduate and graduate students in Psychology, Neuroscience, and related disciplines in which cognitive neuroscience is taught.
Hardbound, 672 Pages
Published: February 2010
Imprint: Academic Press
ISBN: 978-0-12-375070-9
Reviews
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"This extremely exciting book provides the reader the necessary basic information to appreciate how the traditional separation between the mind and the brain is nowadays challenged by the nomological network generated by the careful observation of the biological-neurological events and the related cognitive inferred concepts. Indeed, even though the ancient debate mind versus body has never ceased to be a subject of discussion by scientists and philosophers, currently it has become again a productive and stimulating scientific question, mainly because of the availability of functional neuroimaging techniques that has attracted the convergent interest of biologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists this second edition looks quite appealing and the editors should be very proud of it. The numerous elegant and very instructive colored figures and schemas as well as the quality of printing enrich the "charme" of this book, which certainly deserves to be suggested to anyone interested in a better insight on the neurological, emotional, and cognitive processes of our brain."--Childs Nerv Syst (2020) 26:1251
Contents
Table of Contents.
Preface1 Mind and brain
2 A framework
3 Neurons and their connections
4 The tools: Imaging the living brain5 The brain
6 Vision7 Hearing and speech
8 Attention and consciousness9 Learning and memory
10 Thinking and problem-solving11 Language
12 Goals, executive control, and action13 Emotion
14 Social cognition: Perceiving the mental states of others15 Development
16 The genes and molecules of cognitionAppendix -- Methods for observing the living brain (Ramsoy, Olaf Paulson, Copenhagen)
Mini-Atlas of the Brain
GlossaryIndex
