Conversations in the cognitive neurosciences / edited by Michael S. Gazzaniga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gazzaniga, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive neuroscience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 193 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences is a brief, informative yet informal guide to recent developments in the cognitive neurosciences by the scientists who are in the thick of things. "Getting a fix on important questions and how to think about them from an experimental point of view is what scientists talk about, sometimes endlessly. It is those conversations that thrill and motivate," observes Michael Gazzaniga. Yet all too often these exciting interactions are lost to students, researchers, and others who are "doing" science. Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences brings together a series of interviews with prominent individuals in neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology that have appeared over the past few years in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience . The ten interviews are divided into five sections: basic neuroscience approaches to cognition (Floyd Bloom and Mark Raichle), attentional and perceptual processes (Michael I. Posner and William T. Newsome), neural basis of memory (Randy Gallistel and Endel Tulving), language (Steven Pinker and Alfonso Caramazza), and imagery and consciousness (Stephen M. Kosslyn and Daniel C. Dennett). A Bradford Book

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-28689-0

0-585-00338-6

OCLC:

42328595

Publisher Number:

9780585003382 (electronic bk.)