Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience by Roberto Cabeza, Marty Woldorff, Dale Purves, Kevin S. LaBar and Michael L. Platt (2007, Hardcover)

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

0878936947

9780878936946

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Marty Woldorff, Kevin S. Labar, Roberto Cabeza, Dale Purves, Michael L. Platt

Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience

Hardcover

English

2007

Textbook

500 Pages

8.7in

69.9 Oz

Qp360.5

Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience - PART I: PRINCIPLES OF NEUROSCIENCE AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN STUDYING COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS - Principles of Human Nervous System Structure and Function - Relevant Principles of Cognitive Psychology - Exploring Cognitive Processes in Neural Terms - PART II: PRINCIPLES OF SENSORY PROCESSING AND PERCEPTION - Overview of Sensory Processing - The Perception of Visual Stimuli - Perception of Auditory Stimuli - Mechanosensory and Chemosensory Perception - PART III: PRINCIPLES OF MOTOR PROCESSING AND MOTOR BEHAVIOR - Overview of Motor Systems and Motor Control - Computation and Cognition in the Motor System - PART IV: PRINCIPLES OF ATTENTION - Overview of Attention - Effects of Attention on Sensory Processing - The Control of Attention - PART V: PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING AND MEMORY - Memory Systems and Representations - Declarative Memory - Non-Declarative Memory - Working Memory - PART VI: PRINCIPLES OF EMOTION AND SOCIAL COGNITION - Introduction to Emotion - Cognition-Emotion Interactions - Social Cognition - PART VII: PRINCIPLES OF SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION, COMPREHENSION, AND EXPRESSION - Speech and Language - The Neural Bases of Language - Representation of Time and Number - PART VIII: PRINCIPLES OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND DECISION-MAKING - Principles of Executive Processing - Decision-Making - Reasoning and Problem Solving - PART IX: EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Evolution of Brain and Cognition - Development of Cognitive Abilities - Consciousness - Glossary - Index

2007

College Audience

Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Psychology