| Description |
viii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
A Bradford book |
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Bradford book.
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| Contents |
I. Basic Neuroscience Approaches to Cognition. 1. Neurochemical / Floyd E. Bloom. 2. Brain Imaging / Marcus E. Raichle -- II. Attentional and Perceptual Processes. 3. Attention / Michael I. Posner. 4. Perceptual Processes / William T. Newsome -- III. Neural Basis of Memory. 5. Neurons and Memory / Randy Gallistel. 6. Human Memory / Endel Tulving -- IV. Language. 7. Evolutionary Perspectives / Steven Pinker. 8. Brain and Language / Alfonso Caramazza -- V. Imagery and Consciousness. 9. Mental Imagery / Stephen M. Kosslyn. 10. Qualia / Daniel C. Dennett |
| Summary |
Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences is a brief, informative yet informal guide to recent developments in the cognitive neurosciences by the scientists who are in the thick of things. "Getting a fix on important questions and how to think about them from an experimental point of view is what scientists talk about, sometimes endlessly. It is those conversations that thrill and motivate," observes Michael Gazzaniga. Yet all too often these exciting interactions are lost to students, researchers, and others who are "doing" science. Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences brings together a series of interviews with prominent individuals in neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology that have appeared over the past few years in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Notes |
"A Bradford book." |
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Also available online |
| Subject |
Cognitive neuroscience.
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| Author |
Gazzaniga, Michael S.
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| LC no. |
96028258 |
| ISBN |
026257117X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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