An edition of The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience
(2015)
The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience
Third edition.
by Jamie Ward
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The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience
2015, Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Cognitive neuroscience in historical perspective
Does cognitive psychology need the brain?
Does neuroscience need cognitive psychology?
Structure and function of the neuron
The gross organization of the brain
The cerebral cortex
The subcortex
The midbrain and hindbrain
In search of neural representations: single-cell recordings
Electroencephalography and event-related potentials
Mental chronometry in electrophysiology and cognitive psychology
Magnetoencephalography
Structural imaging
Functional imaging
From image to cognitive theory: experimental design
Analyzing data from functional imaging
Interpreting data from functional imaging
Why do functional imaging data sometimes disagree with lesion data?
Brain-reading: is "Big Brother" round the corner?
Dissociations and associations
Single-case studies
Group studies and lesion-deficit analysis
Animal models in neuropsychology.
Contents note continued: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
From eye to brain
Cortical blindness and "blindsight"
Functional specialization of the visual cortex beyond V1
Recognizing objects
Recognizing faces
Vision imagined
Spatial and non-spatial attentional process
The role of the parietal lobes in attention
Theories of attention
Neglect as a disorder of spatial attention and awareness
A basic cognitive framework for movement and action
The role of the frontal lobes in movement and action
Planning actions: the SAS model
Ownership and awareness of actions
Action comprehension and imitation
Acting on objects
Preparation and execution of actions
Short-term and working memory
Different types of long-term memory
Amnesia
Functions of the hippocampus and medial temporal lobes in memory
Theories of remembering, knowing, and forgetting.
Contents note continued: The role of the prefrontal cortex in long-term memory
The nature of sound
From ear to brain
Basic processing of auditory information
Music perception
Voice perception
Speech perception
Spoken word recognition
Semantic memory and the meaning of words
Understanding and producing sentences
Retrieving and producing spoken words
Visual word recognition
Reading aloud: routes from spelling to sound
Spelling and writing
Does spelling use the same mechanisms as reading?
Universal numeracy?
The meaning of numbers
Models of number processing
Anatomical and functional divisions of the prefrontal cortex
Executive functions in practice
The organization of executive functions
The role of the anterior cingulate in executive functions
Theories of emotion
Neural substrates of emotion processing
Reading faces
Reading minds
Structural development of the brain.
Contents note continued: Functional development of the brain: sensitive periods and innate knowledge?
Behavioral genetics
Beyond nature versus nurture: gene[
]environment interplay.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-509) and index.
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