Record Nr.

UNINA9910133684003321

Autore

Bennett M. R

Titolo

History of cognitive neuroscience [[electronic resource] /] / M.R. Bennett and P.M.S. Hacker

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Chichester, West Sussex, ; ; Malden, MA., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

ISBN

1-118-39426-7

1-118-39428-3

1-118-39429-1

Edizione

[Pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HackerP. M. S (Peter Michael Stephan)

Disciplina

612.8233

Soggetti

Cognitive neuroscience - History

Neurosciences - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Plates""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Perceptions, Sensations and Cortical Function: Helmholtz to Singer""; ""1.1 Visual Illusions and their Interpretation by Cognitive Scientists""; ""1.1.1 Misdescription of visual illusions by cognitive scientists""; ""1.2 Gestalt Laws of Vision""; ""1.3 Split-Brain Commissurotomy; the Two Hemispheres may Operate Independently""; ""1.3.1 Misdescription of the results of commissurotomy""

""1.3.2 Explaining the discoveries derived from commissurotomies""""1.4 Specificity of Cortical Neurons""; ""1.4.1 Cardinal cells""; ""1.4.2 Misdescription of experiments leading to the conception of cardinal cells""; ""1.5 Multiple Pathways Connecting Visual Cortical Modules""; ""1.6 Mental Images and Representations""; ""1.6.1 Misconceptions about images and representations""; ""1.7 What and Where Pathways in Object Recognition and Maps""; ""1.8 Misuse of the Term â€?Mapsâ€?""; ""1.9 The Binding Problem and 40 Hz Oscillations""

""1.9.1 Misconceptions concerning the existence of a binding problem""""1.9.2 On the appropriate interpretation of synchronicity of neuronal firing in visual cortex""; ""1.10 Images and Imagining"";

""1.10.1 Misconceptions concerning images and imagining""; ""2: Attention, Awareness and Cortical Function: Helmholtz to Raichle""; ""2.1 The Concept of Attention""; ""2.2 The Psychophysics of Attention""; ""2.3 Neuroscience of Attention""; ""2.3.1 Attention and arousal""; ""2.3.2 Selective attention""; ""2.4 Attention Related to Brain Structures""; ""2.4.1 Superior colliculus""

""2.4.2 Parietal cortex""""2.4.3 Visual cortex""; ""2.4.4 Auditory cortex""; ""2.5 Conclusion""; ""3: Memory and Cortical Function: Milner to Kandel""; ""3.1 Memory""; ""3.1.1 The hippocampus is required for memory, which decays at two different rates""; ""3.1.2 Memory is of two kinds: declarative and non-declarative""; ""3.1.3 Cellular and molecular studies of non-declarative memory in invertebrates""; ""3.1.4 Declarative memory and the hippocampus""; ""3.1.5 Long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus""

""3.1.6 Cellular and molecular mechanisms of declarative memory in the hippocampus""""3.1.7 Summary""; ""3.2 Memory and Knowledge""; ""3.2.1 Memory""; ""3.2.2 Memory and storage""; ""3.3 The Contribution of Neuroscience to Understanding Memory""; ""4: Language and Cortical Function: Wernicke to Levelt""; ""4.1 Introduction: Psycholinguistics and the Neuroanatomy of Language""; ""4.2 The Theory of Wernicke/Lichtheim""; ""4.2.1 Introduction: Wernicke""; ""4.2.1.1 Images of sensations""; ""4.2.1.2 Movement images""; ""4.2.1.3 Voluntary movement""; ""4.2.1.4 Sound images and language""

""4.2.1.5 Language acquisition, words and concepts""

Sommario/riassunto

History of Cognitive Neuroscience documents the major neuroscientific experiments and theories over the last century and a half in the domain of cognitive neuroscience, and evaluates the cogency of the conclusions that have been drawn from them.Provides a companion work to the highly acclaimed Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience - combining scientific detail with philosophical insightsViews the evolution of brain science through the lens of its principal figures and experimentsAddresses philosophical criticism of Bennett and Hacker's previous bookAccompanied by more than 100 illustration