Topics in integrative neuroscience
Subtitle: from cells to cognition
By: James R. Pomerantz, editor.
Contributors: Pomerantz, James R.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521869133
Subjects: Higher nervous activity; Perception; Language and languages; Memory; Higher Nervous Activity -- physiology; Auditory Perception -- physiology; Language; Memory -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Neuroscience, choice and responsibility / Patricia S. Churchland; title: Attention as an organ system / Michael Posner and Jin Fan; title: Cortical dynamics and visual perception / Charles Gilbert; title: Cortical mechanisms of visuospatial attention in humans and monkeys / Sabine Kastner, Peter De Weerd, and Leslie Ungerleider; title: Varying degrees of plasticity in different subsystems within language / Lisa D. Sanders, Christine M. Weber-Fox, Helen J. Neville; title: The functional architecture of speech perception / David Poeppel and Martin Hackl; title: Varieties of silence: the impact of neuro-degenerative diseases on language systems in the brain / Karalyn Patterson ... [et al.]; title: Why is language unique to humans? / Jacques Mehler, Marina Nespor, and Marcela Pena; title: Memory systems / Larry R. Squire and Craig E.L. Stark; title: A brain system for declarative memory / Seth J. Ramus and Howard B. Eichenbaum; title: The role of the lateral nucleus of the amygdala in auditory fear conditioning / Hugh T. Blair ... [et al.]; title: On crucial roles of hippocampal NMDA receptors in acquisition and recall of associative memory / Kazu Nakazawa, Matthew A. Wilson, Susumu tonegawa; title: Song selectivity, singing, and synaptic plasticity in songbirds / Michele M. Solis ... [et al.]; title: Voltage-dependent sodium currents in hair cells of the inner ear / Julian R.A. Wooltorton ... [et al.].