The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience

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Title:

Author:

Ward, Jamie, 1972-

ISBN:

9781848722712

9781848722729

Personal Author:

Ward, Jamie, 1972-

Edition:

Third edition.

Physical Description:

xii, 536 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Contents:

Cognitive neuroscience in historical perspective -- Does cognitive psychology need the brain? -- Does neuroscience need cognitive psychology? -- Structure and function of the neuron -- The gross organization of the brain -- The cerebral cortex -- The subcortex -- The midbrain and hindbrain -- In search of neural representations: single-cell recordings -- Electroencephalography and event-related potentials -- Mental chronometry in electrophysiology and cognitive psychology -- Magnetoencephalography -- Structural imaging -- Functional imaging -- From image to cognitive theory: experimental design -- Analyzing data from functional imaging -- Interpreting data from functional imaging -- Why do functional imaging data sometimes disagree with lesion data? -- Brain-reading: is "Big Brother" round the corner? -- Dissociations and associations -- Single-case studies -- Group studies and lesion-deficit analysis -- Animal models in neuropsychology --

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) -- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) -- From eye to brain -- Cortical blindness and "blindsight" -- Functional specialization of the visual cortex beyond V1 -- Recognizing objects -- Recognizing faces -- Vision imagined -- Spatial and non-spatial attentional process -- The role of the parietal lobes in attention -- Theories of attention -- Neglect as a disorder of spatial attention and awareness -- A basic cognitive framework for movement and action -- The role of the frontal lobes in movement and action -- Planning actions: the SAS model -- Ownership and awareness of actions -- Action comprehension and imitation -- Acting on objects -- Preparation and execution of actions -- Short-term and working memory -- Different types of long-term memory -- Amnesia -- Functions of the hippocampus and medial temporal lobes in memory -- Theories of remembering, knowing, and forgetting --

The role of the prefrontal cortex in long-term memory -- The nature of sound -- From ear to brain -- Basic processing of auditory information -- Music perception -- Voice perception -- Speech perception -- Spoken word recognition -- Semantic memory and the meaning of words -- Understanding and producing sentences -- Retrieving and producing spoken words -- Visual word recognition -- Reading aloud: routes from spelling to sound -- Spelling and writing -- Does spelling use the same mechanisms as reading? -- Universal numeracy? -- The meaning of numbers -- Models of number processing -- Anatomical and functional divisions of the prefrontal cortex -- Executive functions in practice -- The organization of executive functions -- The role of the anterior cingulate in executive functions -- Theories of emotion -- Neural substrates of emotion processing -- Reading faces -- Reading minds -- Structural development of the brain --

Functional development of the brain: sensitive periods and innate knowledge? -- Behavioral genetics -- Beyond nature versus nurture: gene[—]environment interplay.

Subject Term:

Cognitive neuroscience.

Brain -- physiology.

Cognition -- physiology.

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Summary

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated third edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function, as well as all the key methods and procedures of cognitive neuroscience, with a view to helping students understand how they can be used to shed light on the neural basis of cognition.

The book presents an up-to-date overview of the latest theories and findings in all the key topics in cognitive neuroscience, including vision, memory, speech and language, hearing, numeracy, executive function, social and emotional behaviour and developmental neuroscience, as well as a new chapter on attention. Throughout, case studies, newspaper reports and everyday examples are used to help students understand the more challenging ideas that underpin the subject.

In addition each chapter includes:

Summaries of key terms and points Example essay questions Recommended further reading Feature boxes exploring interesting and popular questions and their implications for the subject.

Written in an engaging style by a leading researcher in the field, and presented in full-color including numerous illustrative materials, this book will be invaluable as a core text for undergraduate modules in cognitive neuroscience. It can also be used as a key text on courses in cognition, cognitive neuropsychology, biopsychology or brain and behavior. Those embarking on research will find it an invaluable starting point and reference.

The Student¿s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 3rd Edition is supported by a companion website, featuring helpful resources for both students and instructors.