Fundamentals of cognitive neuroscience : a beginner's guide /

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Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience, winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, offers a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to cognitive neuroscience. Chapters in this introductory text cover all aspects of the field-the neural framework...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baars, Bernard J.
Otros Autores: Gage, Nicole M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, �2013.
Temas:
Cognitive neuroscience.
Cognitive neuroscience > Case studies.
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
Cognition > physiology
Neurosciences cognitives.
Neurosciences cognitives > �Etudes de cas.
Cognitive neuroscience
Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Neuroscience.
Health and Wellbeing.
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mind and brain
  • A framework
  • The nerve cell
  • The brain
  • Imaging the brain
  • The art of seeing
  • Sound, speech, and music
  • The brain is conscious (sometimes)
  • The brain learns
  • Thinking
  • Speaking
  • The central executive: decisions, goals, and actions
  • Feelings and the social brain
  • Growing up: development
  • Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Beginner's Guide
  • Postscript
  • 1. : Mind and brain
  • 1.0. An invitation
  • 1.1. Mini-Atlas of the Brain
  • 2.0. Basic concepts
  • 2.1. Distance: ten orders of magnitude
  • 2.2. Time: ten orders of magnitude
  • 2.3. Science makes inferences
  • 2.4. Converging measures help to test ideas
  • 2.5. Landmarks of the brain
  • 2.5.1. The major planes of section
  • 2.5.2. The nerve cell (neuron)
  • 3.0. Hot debates
  • 3.1. Mind and brain
  • 3.2. Biology shapes our minds
  • 3.3. Local and global brain activities
  • 3.4. Conscious experiences are reportable
  • 3.5. Science keeps moving
  • 4.0. Study questions and drawing exercises
  • 4.1. Study questions
  • 4.2. Drawing exercise
  • 2. : A useful framework
  • 1.0. Brain regions and their functions
  • 2.0. Cognitive functions
  • 2.1. Sensory input
  • 2.2. Sensory memories
  • 2.3. Selective attention and conscious events
  • 2.4. Working memory
  • 2.4.1. Using working memory to access long-term memories
  • 2.4.2. Talking to ourselves: inner speech
  • 2.4.3. Visual imagery
  • 2.5. The brain in working memory
  • 2.5.1. The surprising role of mental effort
  • 2.5.2. Holding buffers
  • 2.6. Long-term memories
  • 2.7. The central executive and voluntary control
  • 2.7.1. The executive brain
  • 2.7.2. The voluntary muscles: what we can control
  • 2.7.3. Executive effort and automaticity
  • 2.7.4. The input and output hierarchy
  • 2.7.5. Speaking
  • 3.0. Using the functional diagram
  • 3.1. Only a fleeting moment
  • 3.2. HM and Clive Wearing
  • 3.3. What is not lost?
  • 4.0. Small and large mental capacities
  • 4.1. Multitasking is hard-and often impossible
  • 4.2. Very large capacities
  • 4.3. Why such small capacity limits?
  • 5.0. Summary
  • 6.0. Study questions and drawing exercises
  • 6.1. Study questions
  • 6.2. Drawing exercises
  • 3. : The nerve cell
  • 1.0. Introduction
  • 2.0. Basic features
  • 2.1. Neurons and signals
  • 2.2. The integrate-and-fire neuron
  • 2.3. Spiking codes
  • 2.3.1. The synapse
  • 2.3.2. Synapses as stop/go switches
  • 3.0. How neurons combine
  • 3.1. Receptors, pathways, and circuits
  • 3.2. Maps
  • 3.3. Top-down (expectation-driven) processing
  • 4.0. Neural computing
  • 4.1. Some computational functions
  • 5.0. The brain code: maps + waves
  • 5.1. Synchrony and phase-locking
  • 6.0. Learning and adaptation
  • 6.1. Hebbian learning: "Neurons that fire together, wire together"
  • 6.2. Neural Darwinism: survival of cells, synapses, and even dynamic activity
  • 7.0. Summary
  • 8.0. Study questions and drawing exercises
  • 8.1. Study questions
  • 8.2. Drawing exercise
  • 4. : The brain
  • 1.0. Introduction
  • 2.0. The cortex
  • 2.1. The great bridge between the hemispheres
  • 2.2. The cortex's maps
  • 3.0. Below the cortex
  • 3.1. The thalamus
  • 4.0. Summary
  • 5.0. Study questions and drawing exercises
  • 5.1. Study questions
  • 5.2. Drawing exercises
  • 5. : Brain imaging
  • 1.0. Introduction
  • 1.1. Basics
  • 1.1.1. Accuracy in space and time
  • 1.1.2. A brain in a shoebox: coordinates
  • 1.2. Single neurons.

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