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Frontiers in cognitive neuroscience

edited by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Richard A. Andersen

(Bradford book)

MIT Press, c1992

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience is the first book of extensive readings in an exciting new field that is built on the assumption that "the mind is what the brain does," and that seeks to understand how brain function gives rise to mental activities such as perception, memory, and language. The editors, a cognitive scientist and a neuroscientist, have worked together to select contributions that provide the interdisciplinary foundations of this emerging field, putting them into context, both historically and with regard to current issues. Fifty-five articles are grouped in sections that cover attention, vision, auditory and somatosensory systems, memory, and higher cortical functions. They range from Gazzaniga and Bogen's discussion of functional effects of sectioning the cerebral commissure in man and Geschwind's classic study of the organization of language in the brain, published in the 1960s, to contemporary investigations by Schiller and Logothetis on color-opponent and broad-band channels of the primate visual system and by Bekkers and Stevens on presynaptic mechanisms for long-term potentiation in the hippocampus. The editors have provided both a general introduction and introductions to each of the five major sections.

Table of Contents

  • Vision
  • processing streams
  • representation
  • auditory and somatosensory systems
  • audition
  • somatosensory systems
  • attention
  • memory
  • storage mechanisms
  • memory systems
  • higher cortical functions
  • reasoning
  • language.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA19256604
  • ISBN
    • 0262111632
  • LCCN
    91036146
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxix, 699 p.
  • Size
    29 cm
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