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9780230301108

Controversies in Cognitive Neuroscience

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230301108

  • ISBN10:

    023030110X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-12-24
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Providing an in-depth review of controversies and debates within cognitive neuroscience, this single-authored book outlines the evidence and arguments on both sides of the debate, encouraging students to develop crucial critical thinking skills as they engage with the most exciting issues in this growing field.

Author Biography

SCOTT SLOTNICK is Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston College, USA. As well as teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, he is also an active researcher in this field with particular interest in the neural mechanisms mediating human memory, perception, and attention.

Table of Contents

Cognitive Neuroscience: The Bare Bones
The Fusiform Face Area
The Nature of Attentional Modulation in V1
Long-term Memory and the Medial Temporal Lobe
Working Memory Segregation in the Frontal Cortex
The Visual Word Form Area
Can Visual Mental Images be Pictorial?
The Neural Basis of Processing Animacy
The Adequacy of fMRI
Cognitive Neuroscience at a Crossroads

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