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Essentials of cognitive neuroscience / / Bradley R. Postle
| Essentials of cognitive neuroscience / / Bradley R. Postle |
| Autore | Postle Bradley R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 |
| Disciplina | 612.8/233 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive neuroscience
Clinical neuropsychology |
| ISBN |
1-118-46827-9
1-118-46826-0 1-118-46806-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792119903321 |
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Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience
| Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Autore | Postle Bradley R |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (610 pages) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/233 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive neuroscience
Clinical neuropsychology |
| ISBN |
1-118-46827-9
1-118-46826-0 1-118-46806-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Methodology Boxes -- Walk Through of Pedagogical Features -- Companion Website -- Section I The Neurobiology of Thinking -- Introduction to Section I The Neurobiology of Thinking -- COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE? OR "HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE"? OR "NEUROSCIENCE-WITH-DIRECT IMPLICATIONS-FOR-UNDERSTANDING-HUMAN-BEHAVIOR"? -- Chapter 1 Introduction and History -- KEY THEMES -- TIMELINE: NINTEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORIGINS OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE -- A BRIEF (AND SELECTIVE) HISTORY -- Localization of function vs. mass action -- The first scientifically rigorous demonstrations of localization of function -- WHAT IS A BRAIN AND WHAT DOES IT DO? -- LOOKING AHEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 2 The Brain -- KEY THEMES -- PEP TALK -- GROSS ANATOMY -- The cerebral cortex -- THE NEURON -- Electrical and chemical properties of the neuron -- Neuroanatomical techniques exploit the physiology of the neuron -- OSCILLATORY FLUCTUATIONS IN THE MEMBRANE POTENTIAL -- Neurons are never truly "at rest" -- Synchronous oscillation -- COMPLICATED, AND COMPLEX -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action -- Introduction to Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action -- Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals -- KEY THEMES -- THE DOMINANT SENSE IN PRIMATES -- ORGANIZATION OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM -- The visual field -- The retinotopic organization of primary visual cortex -- INFORMATION PROCESSING IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX - BOTTOM UP FEATURE DETECTION -- The V1 neuron as feature detector -- Columns, hypercolumns, and pinwheels.
INFORMATION PROCESSING IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX - INTERACTIVITY -- Feedforward and feedback projections of V1 -- Circularity? It can depend on your perspective -- The relation between visual processing and the brain's physiological state -- WHERE DOES SENSATION END? WHERE DOES PERCEPTION BEGIN? -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 4 Audition and Somatosensation -- KEY THEMES -- APOLOGIA -- AUDITION -- Auditory sensation -- Auditory perception -- Adieu to audition -- SOMATOSENSATION -- Transduction of mechanical and thermal energy, and of pain -- Somatotopy -- Somatosensory plasticity -- Phantom limbs and phantom pain -- Proprioception -- Adieu to sensation -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 5 The Visual System -- KEY THEMES -- FAMILIAR PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES, APPLIED TO HIGHER-LEVEL REPRESENTATIONS -- TWO PARALLEL PATHWAYS -- A diversity of projections from V1 -- A functional dissociation of visual perception of what an object is vs. where it is located -- Interconnectedness within and between the two pathways -- THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE VENTRAL VISUAL PROCESSING STREAM -- Hand cells, face cells, and grandmother cells -- A hierarchy of stimulus representation -- A critical role for feedback in the ventral visual processing stream -- TAKING STOCK -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 6 Spatial Cognition and Attention -- KEY THEMES -- UNILATERAL NEGLECT: A FERTILE SOURCE OF MODELS OF SPATIAL COGNITION AND ATTENTION -- Unilateral neglect: a clinicoanatomical primer -- Hypotheses arising from clinical observations of neglect -- THE FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF THE DORSAL STREAM -- Mapping what vs. where in humans with positron emission tomography. Detecting spatial maps with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) -- Coordinate transformations to guide action with perception -- FROM PARIETAL SPACE TO MEDIAL-TEMPORAL PLACE -- Place cells in the hippocampus -- How does place come to be represented in the hippocampus? -- THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF SENSORY ATTENTION -- A day at the circus -- Attending to locations vs. attending to objects -- Mechanisms of spatial attention -- Effects of attention on neuronal activity -- TURNING OUR ATTENTION TO THE FUTURE -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 7 Skeletomotor Control -- KEY THEMES -- THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MOTOR SYSTEM -- The anatomy of the motor system -- The corticospinal tract -- The cortico-cerebellar circuit -- The cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuits -- FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPLES OF MOTOR CONTROL -- The biomechanics of motor control -- Motor cortex -- The neurophysiology of movement -- MOTOR CONTROL OUTSIDE OF MOTOR CORTEX -- Parietal cortex: guiding how we move -- Cerebellum: motor learning, balance, … and mental representation? -- Basal ganglia -- COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE MOTOR SYSTEM -- IT'S ALL ABOUT ACTION -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 8 Oculomotor Control and the Control of Attention -- KEY THEMES -- ATTENTION AND ACTION -- WHYS AND HOWS OF EYE MOVEMENTS -- Three categories of eye movements -- THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM -- An overview of the circuitry -- The superior colliculus -- The posterior system -- The frontal eye field -- The supplementary eye field -- THE CONTROL OF EYE MOVEMENTS, AND OF ATTENTION, IN HUMANS -- Human oculomotor control -- Human attentional control -- THE CONTROL OF ATTENTION VIA THE OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM -- Covert attention -- Where's the attentional controller?. Are Oculomotor Control and Attentional Control Really the "Same Thing"? -- The "method of visual inspection" -- "Prioritized Maps of Space in Human Frontoparietal Cortex" -- OF LABELS AND MECHANISMS -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Section III Mental Representation -- Introduction to Section III Mental Representation -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Visual Object Recognition and Knowledge -- KEY THEMES -- VISUAL AGNOSIA -- Apperceptive agnosia -- Associative agnosia -- COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF VISUAL OBJECT RECOGNITION -- Two neuropsychological traditions -- The cognitive neuroscience revolution in visual cognition -- CATEGORY SPECIFICITY IN THE VENTRAL STREAM? -- Are faces special? -- Perceptual expertise -- Evidence for a high degree of specificity for many categories in ventral occipitotemporal cortex -- Evidence for highly distributed category representation in ventral occipitotemporal cortex -- Demonstrating necessity -- RECONCILING THE IRRECONCILABLE -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 10 Neural Bases of Memory -- KEY THEMES -- PLASTICITY, LEARNING, AND MEMORY -- THE CASE OF H. M. -- Bilateral medial temporal lobectomy -- Hippocampus vs. MTL? -- ASSOCIATION THROUGH SYNAPTIC MODIFICATION -- The example of Pavlovian conditioning -- Hebbian plasticity -- Long-term potentiation -- The necessity of NMDA channels for long‐term memory formation -- HOW MIGHT THE HIPPOCAMPUS WORK? -- Fast-encoding hippocampus vs. slow-encoding cortex -- Episodic memory for sequences -- Episodic memory as an evolutionary elaboration of navigational processing -- WHAT ARE THE COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE HIPPOCAMPUS? -- Standard anatomical model -- Challenges to the standard anatomical model -- Consolidation -- TO CONSOLIDATE -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES. OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 11 Declarative Long-Term Memory -- KEY THEMES -- THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF LTM -- ENCODING -- Neuroimaging the hippocampus -- Incidental encoding into LTM during a short-term memory task -- THE HIPPOCAMPUS IN SPATIAL MEMORY EXPERTS -- RETRIEVAL -- Retrieval without awareness -- Documenting contextual reinstatement in the brain -- Familiarity vs. recollection -- KNOWLEDGE -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 12 Semantic Long-Term Memory -- KEY THEMES -- KNOWLEDGE IN THE BRAIN -- DEFINITIONS AND BASIC FACTS -- CATEGORY-SPECIFIC DEFICITS FOLLOWING BRAIN DAMAGE -- Animacy, or function? -- THE NEUROIMAGING OF KNOWLEDGE -- The meaning, and processing, of words -- PET scanning of object knowledge -- THE PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF KNOWLEDGE -- Primary Progressive Aphasia or Semantic Dementia, what's in a name? -- NUANCE AND CHALLENGES -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 13 Short-Term and Working Memory -- KEY THEMES -- "PROLONGED PERCEPTION" OR "ACTIVATED LTM?" -- DEFINITIONS -- ELEVATED, SUSTAINED ACTIVITY -- Early focus on role of PFC in the control of STM -- Single-unit-delay-period activity in PFC and thalamus -- Working memory -- A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS -- The tradition of univariate analyses -- MVPA of fMRI -- Retrospective MVPA of single-unit extracellular recordings -- THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Section IV High-Level Cognition -- Introductionto Section IV High-level Cognition -- Chapter 14 Cognitive Control -- KEY THEMES -- THE LATERAL FRONTAL-LOBE SYNDROME -- Environmental dependency syndrome -- Perseveration -- Electrophysiology of the frontal-lobe syndrome -- Integration?. MODELS OF COGNITIVE CONTROL. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813042003321 |
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Postle Bradley R
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| Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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