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Essentials of cognitive neuroscience / Bradley R. Postle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Postle, Bradley R., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive neuroscience--Textbooks.
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Clinical neuropsychology--Textbooks.
- Clinical neuropsychology.
- Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 626 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- 656 pages : illustrations
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience supports high-level, substantive study in settings where contact hours and/or expectations for outside-of-the-classroom preparation time may be constrained. It introduces and explicates key principles and concepts in cognitive neuroscience to equip readers to critically evaluate the ever-growing body of findings that the field is generating. For some students, this knowledge will be needed for subsequent formal study, and for all readers it will be needed to evaluate and interpret reports about cognitive neuroscience research that make their way daily into the news media and popular culture. The book gives the student a sense of what it's like to be a cognitive neuroscientist: when confronted with a problem, how does one proceed? How does one read and interpret research that's outside of one's area of specialization? How do two scientists' advancing mutually incompatible models interrelate? Most importantly, what does it feel like to partake in the wonder and excitement of this most dynamic and fundamental of sciences?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Section I: the neurobiology of thinking
- Introduction and history
- Principles of organization, structure, and function
- The neurophysiology of sensation and perception
- Section II: perception, attention, and action
- Methods for cognitive neuroscience
- Audition and somatosensation
- The visual system
- Spatial cognition and attention
- Skeletomotor control
- Oculomotor control and the control of attention
- Section III: mental representation
- Visual object recognition and knowledge
- Neural bases of memory
- Declarative long-term memory
- Semantic long-term memory
- Working memory
- Section IV: high-level cognition
- Cognitive control
- Decision making
- Social behavior
- Emotion
- Language
- Consciousness.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Previous edition: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Postle, Bradley R. Essentials of cognitive neuroscience
- ISBN:
- 9781394380145
- 1394380143
- OCLC:
- 1527884039
- Publisher Number:
- 90104338075
- CIPO000350462
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