Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience

by Postle, Bradley R.

• ISBN13: 9781118468067
• ISBN10: 1118468066
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-02-23
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience guides undergraduate and early-stage graduate students with no previous neuroscientific background through the fundamental principles and themes in a concise, organized, and engaging manner.

• Provides students with the foundation to understand primary literature, recognize current controversies in the field, and engage in discussions on cognitive neuroscience and its future
• Introduces important experimental methods and techniques integrated throughout the text
• Assists student comprehension through four-color images and thorough pedagogical resources throughout the text
• Accompanied by a robust website with multiple choice questions, experiment vidoes, fMRI data, web links and video narratives from a global group of leading scientists for students. For Instructors there are sample syllabi and exam questions

Author Biography

Bradley R. Postle is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught cognitive neuroscience to undergraduates for many years and published over 75 scientific journal articles and chapters on the cognitive neuroscience of memory. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and has previously served in this capacity at the journals NeuroImage and Cortex.

Table of Contents

Preface xvi

Acknowledgments xix

Methodology Boxes xxi

Walkthrough of Pedagogical Features xxii

Companion Website xxiv

SECTION I: THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF THINKING 1

1 Introduction and History 4

2 The Brain 22

SECTION II: SENSATION, PERCEPTION, ATTENTION, AND ACTION 51

3 Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals 54

4 Audition and Somatosensation 85

5 The Visual System 120

6 Spatial Cognition and Attention 153

7 Skeletomotor Control 196

8 Oculomotor Control and the Control of Attention 229

SECTION III: MENTAL REPRESENTATION 259

9 Visual Object Recognition and Knowledge 262

10 Neural Bases of Memory 286

11 Declarative Long?]Term Memory 312

12 Semantic Long?]Term Memory 336

13 Short?]Term and Working Memory 360

SECTION IV: HIGH-LEVEL COGNITION 395

14 Cognitive Control 397

15 Decision Making 422

16 Social Behavior 449

17 Emotion 476

18 Language 502

19 Consciousness 531

Glossary 562

Index 571