The cognitive neurosciences / Michael S. Gazzaniga, editor-in-chief ; Emilio Bizzi, section editors ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gazzaniga, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive neuroscience.

Physical Description:

xiv, 1385 p. : ill.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The third edition of a work that defines the field of cognitive neuroscience, with extensive new material including new chapters and new contributors.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

I - EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

1 - What Is It Like to Be a Human?

2 - Adult Neurogenesis in the Primate Forebrain

3 - Setting the Stage for Cognition: Genesis of the Primate Cerebral Cortex

4 - Neuronal Migration in the Brain

5 - Patterning of the Cerebral Cortex

6 - A New Perspective on the Role of Activity in the Development of Eye-Speci c Retinogeniculate Projections

7 - Brain and Behavioral Development During Childhood

II - PLASTICITY

8 - Long-Term Plasticity of Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission in the Cerebral Cortex

9 - Neurogenesis in the Adult Mammalian Brain

10 - Stress, Deprivation, and Adult Neurogenesis

11 - Quantitative Analysis of Fetal and Adult Neurogenesis: Regulation of Neuron Number

12 - Stem Cell Plasticity: Overview and Perspective

13 - How Sex and Stress Hormones Regulate the Structural and Functional Plasticity of the Hippocampus

III - SENSORY SYSTEMS

14 - The Implications of Metabolic Energy Requirements for the Representation of Information in Neurons

15 - Somatosensory Discrimination:Neural Coding and Decision-Making Mechanisms

16 - Auditory Cortex in Primates: Functional Subdivisions and Processing Streams

17 - A New Foundation for the Visual Cortical Hierarchy

18 - Birdsong: Hearing in the Service of Vocal Learning

19 - Olfaction: From Sniff to Percept

20 - Origins of Perception: Retinal Ganglion Cell Diversity and the Creation of Parallel Visual Pathways

21 - Mechanisms of Image Processing in the Visual Cortex

22 - Receptive Fields and Suppressive Fields in the Early Visual System

23 - Characterization of Neural Responses with Stochastic Stimuli

24 - Neuronal Correlates of Visual Attention and Perception.

25 - Dynamics of Attentional Modulation in Visual Cerebral Cortex

26 - Acoustic Stimulus Processing and Multimodal Interactions in Primates

27 - Motion Perception and Midlevel Vision

28 - Determining an Auditory Scene

29 - Short-Term Memory for the Rapid Deployment of Visual Attention

IV - MOTOR SYSTEMS

30 - Toward a Neurobiology of Coordinate Transformations

31 - Cortical Mechanisms Subserving Object Grasping, Action Understanding, and Imitation

32 - The Representation of Action

33 - Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar Circuits with the Cerebral Cortex

34 - Sensorimotor Transformations in the Posterior Parietal Cortex

35 - Brain Mechanisms of Praxis

36 - Computational Motor Control

37 - The Basal Ganglia and the Control of Action

38 - Motor Learning and Memory for Reaching and Pointing

V - ATTENTION

39 - Psychological Issues in Selective Attention

40 - Orienting and Inhibition of Return

41 - Selective Attention: Electrophysiological and Neuromagnetic Studies

42 - Visual Selective Attention: Insights from Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology

43 - Spatial Neglect and Extinction

44 - Attention and the Frontal Lobes

45 - Attention and Action

46 - Vigilant Attention

VI - MEMORY

47 - Synaptic Growth and the Persistence of Long-Term Memory: A Molecular Perspective

48 - Domain Speci city in Cognitive Systems

49 - An Information Processing Framework for Memory Representation by the Hippocampus

50 - Medial Temporal Lobe Function and Memory

51 - Cognitive Control, Semantic Memory, and Priming: Contributions from Prefrontal Cortex

52 - Retrieval Processing in Human Memory: Electrophysiological and fMRI Evidence

53 - Neural Correlates of Memory'sSuccesses and Sins

VII - LANGUAGE

Introduction.

54 - Prelexical and Lexical Processing in Listening

55 - Cognitive and Neural Substrates of Written Language: Comprehension and Production

56 - The Neural Basis of Syntactic Processes

57 - The Organization of Lexical Knowledge in the Brain:The Grammatical Dimension

58 - The Neural Basis of Reading Acquisition

59 - Biological Foundations of Language Acquisition: Evidence from Bilingualism

60 - The Evolution of Language

VIII - HIGHER COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS

61 - Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Human Knowledge: A Case Study of Mathematics

62 - From Number Neurons to Mental Arithmetic:The Cognitive Neuroscience of Number Sense

63 - Object Categorization, Expertise, and Neural Plasticity

64 - Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Face and Object Representations in the Human Brain

65 - Associative Memory: Representation, Activation, and Cognitive Control

66 - Top-Down Mechanisms for Working Memory and Attentional Processes

67 - The Brain's Mind's Images: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mental Imagery

68 - The Fractionation of Supervisory Control

69 - Functional MRI in Monkeys: A Bridge Between Human and Animal Brain Research

IX - EMOTION AND SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE

70 - Social Neuroscience

71 - The Neural Basis of Fear

72 - The Human Amygdala and Awareness: Interactions Between Emotion and Cognition

73 - Processing of Emotional and Social Information by the Human Amygdala

74 - Stress and Cognition

75 - A General Circuitry Processing Reward/Aversion Information and Its Implications for Neuropsychiatric Illness

76 - A Self Less Ordinary: The Medial Prefrontal Cortex and You

77 - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Knowing One's Self

78 - Frontal Lobe Contributions to Executive Control of Cognitive and Social Behavior

X - CONSCIOUSNESS.

Introduction

79 - How Can We Construct a Science of Consciousness?

80 - The Neurology of Impaired Consciousness: Challenges for Cognitive Neuroscience

81 - A Framework for Consciousness

82 - Neural Mechanisms for Access to Consciousness

83 - Perceiving the World and Grasping It: Dissociations Between Conscious and Unconscious Visual Processing

84 - Neural Correlates of Visual Consciousness in Humans

85 - Split Decisions

86 - Authorship Processing

XI - PERSPECTIVES AND NEW DIRECTIONS

87 - Neuronal Studies of Decision Making in the Visual-Saccadic System

88 - The Neurophysiology of Decision Making as a Window on Cognition

89 - Cortical Plasticity in the Adult Human Brain

90 - Genes and the Development of Neural Networks Underlying Cognitive Processes

91 - Functional Imaging, Neurophysiology, and the Resting State of the Human Brain

92 - Cognitive Neuroimaging: History, Developments, and Directions

93 - Social Exchange: The Evolutionary Design of a Neurocognitive System

94 - Bioethical Issues in the Cognitive Neurosciences

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Rev. ed. of: The new cognitive neurosciences. 2nd ed. c2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09984-1

9786612099847

0-262-27360-8

OCLC:

65189500