The cognitive neurosciences / / Michael S. Gazzaniga, editor-in-chief ; Emilio Bizzi, section editors ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2004
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 1385 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 612.8/2
• Soggetto topico: Cognitive neuroscience
• Altri autori: GazzanigaMichael S
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."; Rev. ed. of: The new cognitive neurosciences. 2nd ed. c2000.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I - EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT -- Introduction -- 1 - What Is It Like to Be a Human? -- 2 - Adult Neurogenesis in the Primate Forebrain -- 3 - Setting the Stage for Cognition: Genesis of the Primate Cerebral Cortex -- 4 - Neuronal Migration in the Brain -- 5 - Patterning of the Cerebral Cortex -- 6 - A New Perspective on the Role of Activity in the Development of Eye-Speci c Retinogeniculate Projections -- 7 - Brain and Behavioral Development During Childhood -- II - PLASTICITY -- Introduction -- 8 - Long-Term Plasticity of Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission in the Cerebral Cortex -- 9 - Neurogenesis in the Adult Mammalian Brain -- 10 - Stress, Deprivation, and Adult Neurogenesis -- 11 - Quantitative Analysis of Fetal and Adult Neurogenesis: Regulation of Neuron Number -- 12 - Stem Cell Plasticity: Overview and Perspective -- 13 - How Sex and Stress Hormones Regulate the Structural and Functional Plasticity of the Hippocampus -- III - SENSORY SYSTEMS -- Introduction -- 14 - The Implications of Metabolic Energy Requirements for the Representation of Information in Neurons -- 15 - Somatosensory Discrimination:Neural Coding and Decision-Making Mechanisms -- 16 - Auditory Cortex in Primates: Functional Subdivisions and Processing Streams -- 17 - A New Foundation for the Visual Cortical Hierarchy -- 18 - Birdsong: Hearing in the Service of Vocal Learning -- 19 - Olfaction: From Sniff to Percept -- 20 - Origins of Perception: Retinal Ganglion Cell Diversity and the Creation of Parallel Visual Pathways -- 21 - Mechanisms of Image Processing in the Visual Cortex -- 22 - Receptive Fields and Suppressive Fields in the Early Visual System -- 23 - Characterization of Neural Responses with Stochastic Stimuli -- 24 - Neuronal Correlates of Visual Attention and Perception. ; 25 - Dynamics of Attentional Modulation in Visual Cerebral Cortex -- 26 - Acoustic Stimulus Processing and Multimodal Interactions in Primates -- 27 - Motion Perception and Midlevel Vision -- 28 - Determining an Auditory Scene -- 29 - Short-Term Memory for the Rapid Deployment of Visual Attention -- IV - MOTOR SYSTEMS -- Introduction -- 30 - Toward a Neurobiology of Coordinate Transformations -- 31 - Cortical Mechanisms Subserving Object Grasping, Action Understanding, and Imitation -- 32 - The Representation of Action -- 33 - Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar Circuits with the Cerebral Cortex -- 34 - Sensorimotor Transformations in the Posterior Parietal Cortex -- 35 - Brain Mechanisms of Praxis -- 36 - Computational Motor Control -- 37 - The Basal Ganglia and the Control of Action -- 38 - Motor Learning and Memory for Reaching and Pointing -- V - ATTENTION -- Introduction -- 39 - Psychological Issues in Selective Attention -- 40 - Orienting and Inhibition of Return -- 41 - Selective Attention: Electrophysiological and Neuromagnetic Studies -- 42 - Visual Selective Attention: Insights from Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology -- 43 - Spatial Neglect and Extinction -- 44 - Attention and the Frontal Lobes -- 45 - Attention and Action -- 46 - Vigilant Attention -- VI - MEMORY -- Introduction -- 47 - Synaptic Growth and the Persistence of Long-Term Memory: A Molecular Perspective -- 48 - Domain Speci city in Cognitive Systems -- 49 - An Information Processing Framework for Memory Representation by the Hippocampus -- 50 - Medial Temporal Lobe Function and Memory -- 51 - Cognitive Control, Semantic Memory, and Priming: Contributions from Prefrontal Cortex -- 52 - Retrieval Processing in Human Memory: Electrophysiological and fMRI Evidence -- 53 - Neural Correlates of Memory'sSuccesses and Sins -- VII - LANGUAGE -- Introduction. ; 54 - Prelexical and Lexical Processing in Listening -- 55 - Cognitive and Neural Substrates of Written Language: Comprehension and Production -- 56 - The Neural Basis of Syntactic Processes -- 57 - The Organization of Lexical Knowledge in the Brain:The Grammatical Dimension -- 58 - The Neural Basis of Reading Acquisition -- 59 - Biological Foundations of Language Acquisition: Evidence from Bilingualism -- 60 - The Evolution of Language -- VIII - HIGHER COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS -- Introduction -- 61 - Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Human Knowledge: A Case Study of Mathematics -- 62 - From Number Neurons to Mental Arithmetic:The Cognitive Neuroscience of Number Sense -- 63 - Object Categorization, Expertise, and Neural Plasticity -- 64 - Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Face and Object Representations in the Human Brain -- 65 - Associative Memory: Representation, Activation, and Cognitive Control -- 66 - Top-Down Mechanisms for Working Memory and Attentional Processes -- 67 - The Brain's Mind's Images: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mental Imagery -- 68 - The Fractionation of Supervisory Control -- 69 - Functional MRI in Monkeys: A Bridge Between Human and Animal Brain Research -- IX - EMOTION AND SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE -- Introduction -- 70 - Social Neuroscience -- 71 - The Neural Basis of Fear -- 72 - The Human Amygdala and Awareness: Interactions Between Emotion and Cognition -- 73 - Processing of Emotional and Social Information by the Human Amygdala -- 74 - Stress and Cognition -- 75 - A General Circuitry Processing Reward/Aversion Information and Its Implications for Neuropsychiatric Illness -- 76 - A Self Less Ordinary: The Medial Prefrontal Cortex and You -- 77 - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Knowing One's Self -- 78 - Frontal Lobe Contributions to Executive Control of Cognitive and Social Behavior -- X - CONSCIOUSNESS. ; Introduction -- 79 - How Can We Construct a Science of Consciousness? -- 80 - The Neurology of Impaired Consciousness: Challenges for Cognitive Neuroscience -- 81 - A Framework for Consciousness -- 82 - Neural Mechanisms for Access to Consciousness -- 83 - Perceiving the World and Grasping It: Dissociations Between Conscious and Unconscious Visual Processing -- 84 - Neural Correlates of Visual Consciousness in Humans -- 85 - Split Decisions -- 86 - Authorship Processing -- XI - PERSPECTIVES AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- Introduction -- 87 - Neuronal Studies of Decision Making in the Visual-Saccadic System -- 88 - The Neurophysiology of Decision Making as a Window on Cognition -- 89 - Cortical Plasticity in the Adult Human Brain -- 90 - Genes and the Development of Neural Networks Underlying Cognitive Processes -- 91 - Functional Imaging, Neurophysiology, and the Resting State of the Human Brain -- 92 - Cognitive Neuroimaging: History, Developments, and Directions -- 93 - Social Exchange: The Evolutionary Design of a Neurocognitive System -- 94 - Bioethical Issues in the Cognitive Neurosciences -- Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The third edition of a work that defines the field of cognitive neuroscience, with extensive new material including new chapters and new contributors.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cognitive neurosciences
• ISBN: 1-282-09984-1; 9786612099847; 0-262-27360-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815557403321
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