The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience
By: Jamie Ward
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781848722712; 9781848722729; 9781315742397; 9781317483151; 9781317586012; 9781317483168
Subjects: Brain; Cognitive neuroscience; 77.50 psychophysiology; Physiology; Cognition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-509) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Cognitive neuroscience in historical perspective; title: Does cognitive psychology need the brain?; title: Does neuroscience need cognitive psychology?; title: Structure and function of the neuron; title: The gross organization of the brain; title: The cerebral cortex; title: The subcortex; title: The midbrain and hindbrain; title: In search of neural representations: single-cell recordings; title: Electroencephalography and event-related potentials; title: Mental chronometry in electrophysiology and cognitive psychology; title: Magnetoencephalography; title: Structural imaging; title: Functional imaging; title: From image to cognitive theory: experimental design; title: Analyzing data from functional imaging; title: Interpreting data from functional imaging; title: Why do functional imaging data sometimes disagree with lesion data?; title: Brain-reading: is "Big Brother" round the corner?; title: Dissociations and associations; title: Single-case studies; title: Group studies and lesion-deficit analysis; title: Animal models in neuropsychology.; title: Contents note continued: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); title: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); title: From eye to brain; title: Cortical blindness and "blindsight"; title: Functional specialization of the visual cortex beyond V1; title: Recognizing objects; title: Recognizing faces; title: Vision imagined; title: Spatial and non-spatial attentional process; title: The role of the parietal lobes in attention; title: Theories of attention; title: Neglect as a disorder of spatial attention and awareness; title: A basic cognitive framework for movement and action; title: The role of the frontal lobes in movement and action; title: Planning actions: the SAS model; title: Ownership and awareness of actions; title: Action comprehension and imitation; title: Acting on objects; title: Preparation and execution of actions; title: Short-term and working memory; title: Different types of long-term memory; title: Amnesia; title: Functions of the hippocampus and medial temporal lobes in memory; title: Theories of remembering, knowing, and forgetting.; title: Contents note continued: The role of the prefrontal cortex in long-term memory; title: The nature of sound; title: From ear to brain; title: Basic processing of auditory information; title: Music perception; title: Voice perception; title: Speech perception; title: Spoken word recognition; title: Semantic memory and the meaning of words; title: Understanding and producing sentences; title: Retrieving and producing spoken words; title: Visual word recognition; title: Reading aloud: routes from spelling to sound; title: Spelling and writing; title: Does spelling use the same mechanisms as reading?; title: Universal numeracy?; title: The meaning of numbers; title: Models of number processing; title: Anatomical and functional divisions of the prefrontal cortex; title: Executive functions in practice; title: The organization of executive functions; title: The role of the anterior cingulate in executive functions; title: Theories of emotion; title: Neural substrates of emotion processing; title: Reading faces; title: Reading minds; title: Structural development of the brain.; title: Contents note continued: Functional development of the brain: sensitive periods and innate knowledge?; title: Behavioral genetics; title: Beyond nature versus nurture: gene[; title: ]environment interplay.