| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 547 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
1. A framework for mind and brain -- 2. The brain -- 3. Observing the brain -- 4. The art of seeing -- 5. Sound, speech, and music perception -- 6. Language and thought -- 7. Learning and remembering -- 8. Attention and consciousness -- 9. Decisions, goals, and actions -- 10. Humans are social beings -- 11. Feelings -- 12. Sleep and levels of consciousness -- 13. Disorders of consciousness -- 14. Growing Up |
| Summary |
This introductory text offers a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to cognitive neuroscience. Chapters cover all aspects of the field - the neural framework, sight, sound, consciousness, learning/memory, problem solving, speech, executive control, emotions, socialization, and development - in a student friendly format. Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, is a comprehensive, yet accessible, beginner's guide on cognitive neuroscience. This text takes a distinctive, commonsense approach to help newcomers easily learn the basics of how the brain functions when we learn, act, feel, speak and socialize. This updated edition includes contents and features that are both academically rigorous and engaging, including a step-by-step introduction to the visible brain, colorful brain illustrations, and new chapters on emerging topics in cognition research, including emotion, sleep and disorders of consciousness, and discussions of novel findings that highlight cognitive neuroscience's practical applications. Written by two leading experts in the field and thoroughly updated, this book remains an indispensable introduction to the study of cognition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2022) |
| Subject |
Cognitive neuroscience.
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Cognitive Neuroscience -- methods
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Brain -- physiology
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Cognition -- physiology
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Cognitive neuroscience
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baars, Bernard J., author.
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| ISBN |
9780128038390 |
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012803839X |
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