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Principles of cognitive neuroscience
- Title
- Principles of cognitive neuroscience / Dale Purves [and others].
- Publication
- Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QP360.5 .P73 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Purves, Dale.
- Description
- xv, 757 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- This title informs readers at all levels about the growing canon of cognitive neuroscience, and makes clear the challenges that remain to be solved by the next generation.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Ch. 1 Human nervous system -- Ch. 2 Relevant principles of cognitive psychology -- Ch. 3 Exploring cognitive processes in neural terms -- Ch. 4 Overview of sensory processing -- Ch. 5 The perception of visual stimuli -- Ch. 6 The perception of auditory stimuli -- Ch. 7 Mechanosensory and chemosensory perception -- Ch. 8 Motor systems and motor control -- Ch. 9 Computation and cognition in the motor system -- Ch. 10 Overview of attention -- Ch. 11 Effects of attention on stimulus processing -- Ch. 12 Attentional control and attentional systems -- Ch. 13 Memory and the brain -- Ch. 14 Declarative memory -- Ch. 15 Nondeclarative memory -- Ch. 16 Working memory -- Ch. 17 Overview of emotions -- Ch. 18 Emotional influences on cognitive functions -- Ch. 19 Social cognition -- Ch. 20 Overview of speech and language -- Ch. 21 The neural bases of language -- Ch. 22 Representation of time and number -- Ch. 23 Executive control systems -- Ch. 24 Decision making -- Ch. 25 Reasoning and problem solving -- Ch. 26 Evolution of brain and cognition -- Ch. 27 Development of the brain and its cognitive functions -- Ch. 28 Consciousness.
- ISBN
- 9780878936946
- 0878936947
- LCCN
- 2007039757
- OCLC
- ocn174094302
- 174094302
- SCSB-1457315
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library