Principles of cognitive neuroscience /
Dale Purves ... [et al.].
- Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c2008.
- xv, 757 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Human nervous system -- Relevant principles of cognitive psychology -- Exploring cognitive processes in neural terms -- Overview of sensory processing -- The perception of visual stimuli -- The perception of auditory stimuli -- Mechanosensory and chemosensory perception -- Motor systems and motor control -- Computation and cognition in the motor system -- Overview of attention -- Effects of attention on stimulus processing -- Attentional control and attentional systems -- Memory and the brain -- Declarative memory -- Nondeclarative memory -- Working memory -- Overview of emotions -- Emotional influences on cognitive functions -- Social cognition -- Overview of speech and language -- The neural bases of language -- Representation of time and number -- Executive control systems -- Decision making -- Reasoning and problem solving -- Evolution of brain and cognition -- Development of the brain and its cognitive functions -- Consciousness. Ch. 1 Ch. 2 Ch. 3 Ch. 4 Ch. 5 Ch. 6 Ch. 7 Ch. 8 Ch. 9 Ch. 10 Ch. 11 Ch. 12 Ch. 13 Ch. 14 Ch. 15 Ch. 16 Ch. 17 Ch. 18 Ch. 19 Ch. 20 Ch. 21 Ch. 22 Ch. 23 Ch. 24 Ch. 25 Ch. 26 Ch. 27 Ch. 28
This title informs readers at all levels about the growing canon of cognitive neuroscience, and makes clear the challenges that remain to be solved by the next generation.