Research Catalog

Title

The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience / Jamie Ward.

Author

Ward, Jamie

Publication

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Psychology Press, c2010.

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Details

Description

x, 453 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

Following an introduction to neural structure and function, all the key methods and procedures of cognitive neuroscience are explained. Then this book goes on to present an overview of the latest theories and findings in all the key topics including vision, attention, memory, speech and language, and more.

Subjects

• Cognitive neuroscience
• Brain > physiology
• Cognition > physiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-431) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Introducing cognitive neuroscience -- Cognitive psychology -- 2. Introducing the brain -- Structure and functions of the neuron -- Gross organization of the brain -- The cerebral cortex -- The subcortex -- the midbrain and hindbrain -- 3. The electrophysiological brain -- Neural representations: single-cell recordings -- Electroencephalography and event-related potentials -- Mental chronometry in electrophysiology and cognitive psychology -- Magnetoencephalography -- 4. The imagined brain -- Structural imaging -- Functional imaging -- From image to cognitive theory: cognitive subtraction methodology -- Event-related versus blocked designs -- Is "Big Brother" round the corner? -- 5. The lesioned brain -- Dissociations and associations -- Single case studies -- Group studies and lesion-deficit analysis -- Animal models in neuropsychology -- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) -- 6. The seeing brain -- From eye to brain -- Cortical blindness and "blindsight" --^
• Functional specialization of the visual cortex -- Recognizing objects -- Recognizing faces -- Vision imagined -- 7. The spatial brain -- Feature-integration theory -- Space, attention and the parietal lobes -- Losing space: seeing one object at a time -- Losing half of space: spatial frames and neglect -- Remembering space: does the hippocampus store a long-term map of the environment? -- 8. The acting brain -- Basic cognitive framework for movement and action -- Role of the frontal lobes in movement and action -- Planning actions: the SAS model -- Ownership and awareness of actions -- Action comprehension and imitation -- Parietofrontal circuits for sensory-motor transformation -- Using objects and tools -- Preparation and execution of actions -- 9. The remembering brain -- Short-term and working memory -- Different types of long-term memory -- Amnesia -- Memory storage and consolidation: time-limited roe for the hippocampus? -- Theories of remembering, knowing and forgetting --^
• Role of the prefrontal cortex in long-term memory -- Constructive memory and memory distortions -- 10. The hearing brain -- The nature of sound -- From ear to brain -- Basic processing of auditory information -- Music perception -- Voice perception -- Speech perception -- 11. The speaking brain -- Spoken work recognition -- Semantic memory and the meaning of words -- Understanding and producing sentences -- Retrieving spoken words -- 12. The literate brain -- Visual word recognition -- Does understand the text require phonological mediation? -- Reading aloud: routes from spelling to sound -- Spelling and writing -- Does spelling use the same mechanisms as reading? -- 13. The numerate brain -- Universal numeracy? -- Meaning of numbers -- Models of number processing -- Are numbers represented in a visuospatial code? -- 14. The executive brain -- Anatomical and functional divisions of the prefrontal cortex -- Models of executive function --^
• Functional specialization within the lateral prefrontal cortex? -- Role of the anterior cingulate in executive functions -- Task switching -- 15. The social and emotional brain -- Processing emotions and social cues: reading faces and reading eyes -- Processing emotions: role for somatic responses? -- Reading minds -- Antisocial behavior -- 16. The developing brain -- Structural development of the brain -- Functional development of the brain: sensitive periods and innate knowledge? -- Behavioral genetics -- Beyond nature versus nurture: gene--environment interplay.

ISBN

• 9781848720022 (hardcover)
• 1848720025 (hardcover)
• 9781848720039 (pbk.)
• 1848720033 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009011169

OCLC

• 316736900
• SCSB-10148781

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library