Essentials of cognitive neuroscience

✍ Scribed by Postle, Bradley R

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell;John Wiley & Sons
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 608
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience guides undergraduate and early-stage graduate students with no previous neuroscientific background through the fundamental principles and themes in a concise, organized, and engaging manner.

• Provides students with the foundation to understand primary literature, recognize current controversies in the field, and engage in discussions on cognitive neuroscience and its future
• Introduces important experimental methods and techniques integrated throughout the text
• Assists student comprehension through four-color images and thorough pedagogical resources throughout the text
• Accompanied by a robust website with multiple choice questions, experiment vidoes, fMRI data, web links and video narratives from a global group of leading scientists for students. For Instructors there are sample syllabi and exam questions

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Title Page
Copyright Page
Brief Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Methodology Boxes
Walk Through of Pedagogical Features
Companion Website
Section I The Neurobiology of Thinking
Introduction to Section I The Neurobiology of Thinking
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE? OR ""HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE""? OR ""NEUROSCIENCE-WITH-DIRECT IMPLICATIONS-FOR-UNDERSTANDING-HUMAN-BEHAVIOR""?
Chapter 1 Introduction and History
KEY THEMES
TIMELINE: NINTEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORIGINS OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
A BRIEF (AND SELECTIVE) HISTORY
Localization of function vs. mass action. The first scientifically rigorous demonstrations of localization of functionWHAT IS A BRAIN AND WHAT DOES IT DO?
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS
REFERENCES
OTHER SOURCES USED
FURTHER READING
Chapter 2 The Brain
KEY THEMES
PEP TALK
GROSS ANATOMY
The cerebral cortex
THE NEURON
Electrical and chemical properties of the neuron
Neuroanatomical techniques exploit the physiology of the neuron
OSCILLATORY FLUCTUATIONS IN THE MEMBRANE POTENTIAL
Neurons are never truly "at rest"
Synchronous oscillation
COMPLICATED, AND COMPLEX. END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONSREFERENCES
OTHER SOURCES USED
FURTHER READING
Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action
Introduction to Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action
Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals
KEY THEMES
THE DOMINANT SENSE IN PRIMATES
ORGANIZATION OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM
The visual field
The retinotopic organization of primary visual cortex
INFORMATION PROCESSING IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX --
BOTTOM UP FEATURE DETECTION
The V1 neuron as feature detector
Columns, hypercolumns, and pinwheels. INFORMATION PROCESSING IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX --
INTERACTIVITYFeedforward and feedback projections of V1
Circularity? It can depend on your perspective
The relation between visual processing and the brain's physiological state
WHERE DOES SENSATION END? WHERE DOES PERCEPTION BEGIN?
END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS
REFERENCES
OTHER SOURCES USED
FURTHER READING
Chapter 4 Audition and Somatosensation
KEY THEMES
APOLOGIA
AUDITION
Auditory sensation
Auditory perception
Adieu to audition
SOMATOSENSATION
Transduction of mechanical and thermal energy, and of pain
Somatotopy. Somatosensory plasticityPhantom limbs and phantom pain
Proprioception
Adieu to sensation
END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS
REFERENCES
OTHER SOURCES USED
FURTHER READING
Chapter 5 The Visual System
KEY THEMES
FAMILIAR PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES, APPLIED TO HIGHER-LEVEL REPRESENTATIONS
TWO PARALLEL PATHWAYS
A diversity of projections from V1
A functional dissociation of visual perception of what an object is vs. where it is located
Interconnectedness within and between the two pathways
THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE VENTRAL VISUAL PROCESSING STREAM.

✦ Subjects

Cognitive neuroscience -- Textbooks.;Clinical neuropsychology -- Textbooks.;MEDICAL / Physiology;SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology;Clinical neuropsychology.;Cognitive neuroscience.;Neuropsychology.;Mental Processes -- physiology.