Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience, EMEA Edition

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience ntroduces and explicates key principles and concepts in cognitive neuroscience in such a way that the reader will be equipped 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 seeks to do so in a style that will give 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 sub-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?

Preface Acknowledgments Methodology Boxes Walkthrough of Pedagogical Features Companion Website Section I: The Neurobiology of Thinking 1 Introduction and History 2 The Brain Section II: Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action 3 Methods for Cognitive Neuroscience 4 Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals 5 Audition and Somatosensation 6 The Visual System 7 Spatial Cognition and Attention 8 Skeletomotor Control 9 Oculomotor Control and the Control of Attention Section III: Mental Representation 10 Visual Object Recognition and Knowledge 11 Neural Bases of Memory 12 Declarative Long-Term Memory 13 Semantic Long-Term Memory 14 Working Memory Section IV: High-Level Cognition 15 Cognitive Control 16 Decision-Making 17 Social Behavior 18 Emotion 19 Language 20 Consciousness Glossary 562 Index 571