Screen LibraryHistory of cognitive neuroscience
History of Cognitive Neuroscience documents the major neuroscientific experiments and theories over the last century and a half in the domain of cognitive neuroscience, and evaluates the cogency of the conclusions that have been drawn from them. Provides a companion work to the highly acclaimed Phil...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118394267 |
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History of Cognitive Neuroscience documents the major neuroscientific experiments and theories over the last century and a half in the domain of cognitive neuroscience, and evaluates the cogency of the conclusions that have been drawn from them. Provides a companion work to the highly acclaimed Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience - combining scientific detail with philosophical insightsViews the evolution of brain science through the lens of its principal figures and experimentsAddresses philosophical criticism of Bennett and Hacker's previous bookAccompanied by more than 100 illustration. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
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9781118394281 (electronic bk.) 1118394283 (electronic bk.) 9781118394267 (electronic bk.) 1118394267 (electronic bk.) 9781118394298 1118394291 |
| Index Number: | QP360 |
| CLC: | R338-09 |
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Copyright page -- List of Plates -- Foreword -- Introduction -- : Perceptions, Sensations and Cortical Function: Helmholtz to Singer -- Visual Illusions and their Interpretation by Cognitive Scientists -- Misdescription of visual illusions by cognitive scientists -- Gestalt Laws of Vision -- Split-Brain Commissurotomy -- the Two Hemispheres may Operate Independently -- Misdescription of the results of commissurotomy -- Explaining the discoveries derived from commissurotomies -- Specificity of Cortical Neurons. Cardinal cells -- Misdescription of experiments leading to the conception of cardinal cells -- Multiple Pathways Connecting Visual Cortical Modules -- Mental Images and Representations -- Misconceptions about images and representations -- What and Where Pathways in Object Recognition and Maps -- Misuse of the Term 'Maps' -- The Binding Problem and 40 Hz Oscillations -- Misconceptions concerning the existence of a binding problem -- On the appropriate interpretation of synchronicity of neuronal firing in visual cortex -- Images and Imagining. Misconceptions concerning images and imagining -- : Attention, Awareness and Cortical Function: Helmholtz to Raichle -- The Concept of Attention -- The Psychophysics of Attention -- Neuroscience of Attention -- Attention and arousal -- Selective attention -- Attention Related to Brain Structures -- Superior colliculus -- Parietal cortex -- Visual cortex -- Auditory cortex -- Conclusion -- : Memory and Cortical Function: Milner to Kandel -- Memory -- The hippocampus is required for memory, which decays at two different rates. Memory is of two kinds: declarative and non-declarative -- Cellular and molecular studies of non-declarative memory in invertebrates -- Declarative memory and the hippocampus -- Long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus -- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of declarative memory in the hippocampus -- Summary -- Memory and Knowledge -- Memory and storage -- The Contribution of Neuroscience to Understanding Memory -- : Language and Cortical Function: Wernicke to Levelt. Introduction: Psycholinguistics and the Neuroanatomy of Language -- The Theory of Wernicke/Lichtheim -- Introduction: Wernicke -- 1 Images of sensations -- 2 Movement images -- 3 Voluntary movement -- 4 Sound images and language -- 5 Language acquisition, words and concepts -- Lichtheim's concept centre -- Concepts and representations -- The Mental Dictionary and its Units: Treisman -- The Modular Study of Word Recognition and Reading Aloud: Morton -- The model system -- The cognitive system -- Thought units. |