| Description |
vi, 381 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
I. Perception and Attention. 1. 'What' and 'where' in the human brain / Leslie G. Ungerleider and James V. Haxby. 2. The processing and encoding of information in the visual cortex / R. Clay Reid and Jose-Manuel Alonso. 3. Blindsight revisited / Lawrence Weiskrantz. 4. Brain representation of object-centered space / Carl R. Olson and Sonya N. Gettner. 5. The binding problem / Anne Treisman. 6. Cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual search / Steven J. Luck. 7. Selective attention in humans: normality and pathology / Jon Driver and Jason B. Mattingly. 8. Perceptual learning: learning to see / Dov Sagi and David Tanne. 9. Plasticity in visual perception and physiology / Charles D. Gilbert -- II. Neuronal Plasticity and Memory. 10. Stimulus recognition / Mortimer Mishkin and Elisabeth A. Murray. 11. Retrograde amnesia and memory consolidation: a neurobiological perspective / Larry R. Squire and Pablo Alvarez. 12. Modulation of memory storage / Larry Cahill and James L. McGaugh. 13. Neurobiology of skill and habit learning / David P. Salmon and Nelson Butters. 14. Varieties of priming / Kevin N. Ochsner, C.-Y. Peter Chiu and Daniel L. Schacter. 15. Is the rodent hippocampus just for 'place'? / Howard Eichenbaum. 16. Memory in food-storing birds: from behaviour to brain / Nicky S. Clayton and John R. Krebs. 17. Synaptic plasticity: hippocampal LTP / Alan U. Larkman and J. Julian B. Jack. 18. CREB and the formation of long-term memory / Jerry C. P. Yin and Timothy Tully -- III. Cognition. 19. Frontal lobes and behaviour / Michael Petrides. 20. Temperament and personality / C. Robert Cloninger. 21. Sex, sexual orientation and sex hormones influence human cognitive function / Doreen Kimura. 22. Perception and awareness after brain damage / Martha J. Farah. 23. Towards the neuronal correlate of visual awareness / Christof Koch and Jochen Braun. 24. Stress and cognitive function / Bruce S. McEwen and Robert M. Sapolsky. 25. Noise, neural codes and cortical organization / Michael N. Shadlen and William T. Newsome. 26. Speech and other central auditory processes: insights from cognitive neuroscience / Steve L. Miller, Thomas V. Delaney and Paula Tallal. 27. Transgenic approaches to cognition / Mark Mayford, Ted Abel and Eric R. Kandel. 28. Huntington's disease: translating a CAG repeat into a pathogenic mechanism / Marcy E. MacDonald and James F. Gusella. 29. Transgenic models of neurodegenerative diseases / Michael K. Lee, David R. Borchelt and Philip C. Wong -- IV. The Organization of Action. 30. Psychophysical approaches to motor control / John F. Soechting and Martha Flanders. 31. Distributed motor processing in cerebral cortex / Andrew B. Schwartz. 32. Functions and structures of the motor cortices in humans / Per E. Roland and Karl Zilles. 33. New concepts of the supplementary motor area / Jun Tanji. 34. Parietal control of hand action / Hideo Sakata and Masato Taira. 35. Role of the cerebellum in movement control and adaptation / Farrel R. Robinson. 36. The representation of temporal information in perception and motor control / Richard B. Ivry. 37. Building action repertoires: memory and learning functions of the basal ganglia / Ann M. Graybiel. 38. Mental motor imagery: a window into the representational stages of action / Marc Jeannerod and Jean Decety -- V. Development and Structure. 39. Development, critical period plasticity, and adult reorganizations of mammalian somatosensory systems / Dennis D. M. O'Leary, Naomi L. Ruff and Richard H. Dyck. 40. Neurotrophins and activity-dependent development of the neocortex / Tobias Bonhoeffer. 41. Development of layers, maps and modules / Alfred Gierer and Christian M. Muller. 42. Plasticity of adult sensorimotor representations / John P. Donoghue. 43. Integrating human brain maps / Peter T. Fox and Marty G. Woldorff. 44. Brain and cognitive development in infancy / Mark H. Johnson. 45. Learning and representation in speech and language / Patricia K. Kuhl. 46. Cross-linguistic approaches to speech processing / Jacques Mehler, Emmanuel Dupoux and Christophe Pallier |
| Notes |
"This book contains 46 articles selected from issues of Current opinion in neurobiology that have appeared since 1994"--Pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cognitive neuroscience.
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| Author |
Kosslyn, Stephen Michael, 1948-
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Squire, Larry R.
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| LC no. |
97028491 |
| ISBN |
026269204X (paperback: alk paper) |
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