Cognitive Neuroscience A Reader

by Gazzaniga, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9780631216605
• ISBN10: 063121660X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reader provides the first definitive collection of readings in this burgeoning area of study. Michael S. Gazzaniga has brought together papers ranging from the earliest articles discussing brain plasticity through to papers recently published in the area of executive functioning.The Reader is divided into distinct sections such as the History of Cognitive Neuroscience, Methods, Language and Unconscious Processing. Each of these sections contain four or five representative articles by eminent researchers that illustrate important methodological, empirical and theoretical issues. The sections are both introduced and contextualized by the author, and a selection of further reading is also provided.Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reader will give professors not only a comprehensive reference volume for their own use, but also an ideal text to recommend to students.

Author Biography

Michael S. Gazzaniga founded and presides over the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and is currently the David T. McGalughlin Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College. He has written and edited many books in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience, his research focussing on split-brain patients.

Table of Contents

Preface	xii
Acknowledgments	xiv
Part i History and Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience
Introduction to Part I	3	(1)
Life with George: The Birth of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute	4	(10)
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience	14	(11)
Patricia S. Churchland
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Electrical and Magnetic Brain Recordings: Contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience	25	(13)
Steven A. Hillyard
Behind the Scenes of Functional Brain Imaging: A Historical and Physiological Perspective	38	(20)
Marcus E. Raichle
Part ii Perception
Introduction to Part II	57	(1)
Exploration of the Primary Visual Cortex, 1955--78	58	(23)
David H. Hubel
The Parietal System and Some Higher Brain Functions	81	(25)
Vernon B. Mountcastle
The Visual Pathways Mediating Perception and Prehension	106	(18)
Melvyn A. Goodale
Lorna S. Jakobson
Philip Servos
Neural Mechanisms for Forming a Perceptual Decision	124	(16)
C. Daniel Salzman
William T. Newsome
James J. Gibson-An Appreciation	140	(16)
Ken Nakayama
Part iii Attention
Introduction to Part III	155	(1)
Attentional Networks	156	(9)
Michael I. Posner
Stanislas Dehaene
Attentional Resolution and the Locus of Visual Awareness	165	(6)
Sheng He
Patrick Cavanagh
James Intriligator
Information Processing of Visual Stimuli in an ``Extinguished'' Field	171	(5)
Bruce T. Volpe
Joseph E. Ledoux
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Negative Priming between Pictures and Words in a Selective Attention Task: Evidence for Semantic Processing of Ignored Stimuli	176	(16)
Steven P. Tipper
Jon Driver
Part iv Imagery
Introduction to Part IV	191	(1)
Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects	192	(5)
Roger N. Shepard
Jacqueline Metzler
Unilateral Neglect of Representational Space	197	(5)
Edoardo Bisiach
Claudio Luzzatti
Topographical Representations of Mental Images in Primary Visual Cortex	202	(10)
Stephen M. Kosslyn
William L. Thompson
Irene J. Kim
Nathaniel M. Alpert
Part V Development and Plasticity
Introduction to Part V	211	(1)
The Effect of Crossing Nerves to Antagonistic Muscles in the Hind Limb of the Rat	212	(12)
Roger W. Sperry
Spatial Integration and Cortical Dynamics	224	(17)
Charles D. Gilbert
Aniruddha Das
Minami Ito
Mitesh Kapadia
Gerald Westheimer
Cortical Mechanisms of Cognitive Development	241	(21)
Mark H. Johnson
Part vi Memory
Introduction to Part VI	261	(1)
Loss of Recent Memory after Bilateral Hippocampal Lesions	262	(18)
William Beecher Scoville
Brenda Milner
Episodic Memory, Semantic Memory, and Amnesia	280	(12)
Larry R. Squire
Stuart M. Zola
Working Memory: The Interface between Memory and Cognition	292	(13)
Alan Baddeley
Understanding Implicit Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach	305	(23)
Daniel L. Schacter
Part vii Action and Executive Function
Introduction to Part VII	327	(1)
Cognitive Neurophysiology of the Motor Cortex	328	(13)
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos
Masato Taira
Alexander Lukashin
Vision for the Control of Movement	341	(25)
Robert H. Wurtz
Combining versus Gating Motor Programs: Differential Roles for Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia?	366	(10)
W. T. Thach
J. W. Mink
H. P. Goodkin
J. G. Keating
Attention to Action: Willed and Automatic Control of Behavior	376	(15)
Donald A. Norman
Tim Shallice
Architecture of the Prefrontal Cortex and the Central Executive	391	(15)
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic
Part viii Language
Introduction to Part VIII	405	(1)
Category-Specific Naming Deficit Following Cerebral Infarction	406	(5)
John Hart Jr
Rita Sloan Berndt
Alfonso Caramazza
Right Hemisphere Language Following Brain Bisection: A 20-Year Perspective	411	(20)
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Current Thinking on Language Structures	431	(17)
Marta Kutas
Part ix Evolution
Introduction to Part IX	447	(1)
Why Does the Brain Have So Many Visual Areas?	448	(25)
Jon H. Kaas
Antibodies and Learning: Selection versus Instruction	473	(10)
Niels Kaj Jerne
The Argument from Animals to Humans in Cognitive Neuroscience	483	(20)
Todd M. Preuss
Index	503