A textbook for psychology, neuroscience, pre,medical students, and everybody interested in the neuroscience of cognition,
A wave of new research is transforming our understanding of the human mind and brain. Many educational fields now require a basic understanding of the new topic of cognitive neuroscience. However, available textbooks are written more for biology audiences than for psychology and related majors. This text aims to bridge that gap. It does not require a background in biology or neuroscience. Rather, it adopts an easy-to-understand thematic approach, building on widely understood concepts in psychology, such as working memory, selective attention, and social cognition. Edited by two leading experts in the field, the book guides the reader along a clear and simple path to understand the latest findings.
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A textbook for psychology, neuroscience, pre,medical students, and everybody interested in the neuroscience of cognition,
A wave of new research is transforming our understanding of the human mind and brain. Many educational fields now require a basic understanding of the new topic of cognitive neuroscience. However, available textbooks are written more for biology audiences than for psychology and related majors. This text aims to bridge that gap. It does not require a background in biology or neuroscience. Rather, it adopts an easy-to-understand thematic approach, building on widely understood concepts in psychology, such as working memory, selective attention, and social cognition. Edited by two leading experts in the field, the book guides the reader along a clear and simple path to understand the latest findings.
The brain is introduced in a step-by-step, readable style. Hundreds of color graphics have been carefully selected to illustrate all points and the research explained. Beautifully clear artist's drawings are used to 'build a brain' from top to bottom, simplifying the layout of the brain Drawing exercises at the end of each chapter are provided to strengthen the studentsi understanding. Well-known chapter authors include Morris Moscovitch (McGill University) on memory, Frank Tong (Vanderbilt University) on vision, Nicole M. Gage (UC Irvine) on audition and speech perception, Mark H. Johnson (University College London) on child development,Elkhonon Goldberg (New York University School of Medicine and Director of The Institute ot Neuropsychology and Cognitive Performance) on executive functions, and Bernard J. Baars (The Neurosciences Institute San Diego) on attention and consciousness. Two appendices provide a Tutorial on Neural Networks by Igor Aleksander (Imperial College london), and a more detailed description of brain imaging methods from Thomas Ramsay and colleagues from the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance.
A support website at textbooks.elsevier.corn provides all figures in electronic format with export to Powerpoint, as well as supplementary material including movies and support material for teachers and students.
Preface
List of contributors
Chapter 1 Mind and brain
Chapter 2 A framework
Chapter 3 Neurons and their connections
Chapter 4 The tools:Imaging the living brain
Chapter 5 The brain
Chapter 6 Vision
Chapter 7 Hearing and speech
Chapter 8 Attention and consciousness
Chapter 9 Learning and memory
Chapter 10 Thinking and prblem-solving
Chapter 11 Language
Chapter 12 Goals,executive control,and action
Chapter 13 Emotion
Chapter 14 Social cognition:Perceiving the mental states of others
Chapter 15 Development
Appendices
A Neural models:A route to cognitive brain theory
B Methods for observing the libing brain
References
Index
