Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience

by Purves, Dale; Cabeza, Roberto; LaBar, Kevin S.; Platt, Michael L.; Woldorff, Marty

• ISBN13: 9780878936946
• ISBN10: 0878936947
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-05
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press

Summary

Duke Univ., Durham, NC. Textbook offer an introduction to the principles of cognitive neuroscience. Includes sensory processing and perception, motor processing and motor behavior, attention, memory, emotion and social cognition, symbolic representation, executive processing, and evolution and development of cognitive functions. For students. DNLM: Brain - physiology

Table of Contents

Introduction: What Is Cognitive Neuroscience?	p. 1
Principles of Neuroscience and Their Importance in Studying Cognitive Functions	p. 5
The Human Nervous System	p. 7
Relevant Principles of Cognitive Psychology	p. 33
Exploring Cognitive Processes in Neural Terms	p. 57
Principles of Sensory Processing and Perception	p. 85
Overview of Sensory Processing	p. 87
The Perception of Visual Stimuli	p. 113
The Perception of Auditory Stimuli	p. 147
Mechanosensory and Chemosensory Perception	p. 175
Principles of Motor Processing and Motor Behavior	p. 199
Motor Systems and Motor Control	p. 201
Computation and Cognition in the Motor System	p. 227
Principles of Attention	p. 247
Overview of Attention	p. 249
Effects of Attention on Stimulus Processing	p. 271
Attentional Control and Attentional Systems	p. 299
Principles of Memory	p. 325
Memory and the Brain: From Cells to Systems	p. 327
Declarative Memory	p. 353
Nondeclarative Memory	p. 379
Working Memory	p. 405
Principles of Emotion and Social Cognition	p. 431
Overview of Emotions	p. 433
Emotional Influences on Cognitive Functions	p. 455
Social Cognition	p. 481
Principles of Symbolic Representation	p. 509
Overview of Speech and Language	p. 511
The Neural Bases of Language	p. 533
Representation of Time and Number	p. 553
Principles of Executive Processing	p. 577
Executive Control Systems	p. 579
Decision Making	p. 601
Reasoning and Problem Solving	p. 623
Evolution and Development of Cognitive Functions, Including Consciousness	p. 641
Evolution of Brain and Cognition	p. 643
Development of the Brain and Its Cognitive Functions	p. 669
Consciousness	p. 705
Neural Signaling	p. 729
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