The Cognitive Neurosciences - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026201341X ISBN 13: 9780262013413

Publisher: Mit Press, 2009

Synopsis

The fourth edition of the work that defines the field of cognitive neuroscience, offering completely new material.

Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. The fourth edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the biologic underpinnings of complex cognition―the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind. The material in this edition is entirely new, with all chapters written specifically for it.

Since the publication of the third edition, the field of cognitive neuroscience has made rapid and dramatic advances; fundamental stances are changing and new ideas are emerging. This edition reflects the vibrancy of the field, with research in development and evolution that finds a dynamic growth pattern becoming specific and fixed, and research in plasticity that sees the neuronal systems always changing; exciting new empirical evidence on attention that also verifies many central tenets of longstanding theories; work that shows the boundaries of the motor system pushed further into cognition; memory research that, paradoxically, provides insight into how humans imagine future events; pioneering theoretical and methodological work in vision; new findings on how genes and experience shape the language faculty; new ideas about how the emotional brain develops and operates; and research on consciousness that ranges from a novel mechanism for how the brain generates the baseline activity necessary to sustain conscious experience to a bold theoretical attempt to make the problem of qualia more tractable.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael S. Gazzaniga is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Codirector of the Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, and editor or coeditor of the five previous editions of The Cognitive Neurosciences (all published by the MIT Press).

Reza Shadmehr is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing (MIT Press, 2005).

John W. Krakauer is John C. Malone Professor and Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Giacomo Rizzolatti is Professor of Human Physiology at the University of Parma.

Richard Ivry is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Berkeley.

Review:

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""The Cognitive Neurosciences IV" is a magnificent accomplishment. It covers topics from ions to consciousness, from reflexes to social psychology. It is authoritative and encyclopedic, but also lively and unafraid of controversy. Michael Gazzaniga, The MIT Press, and the community of cognitive neuroscientists are to be congratulated for assembling this landmark of early twenty-first-century science."--Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of "The Language Instinct, " "How the Mind Works, " and "The Stuff of Thought"

About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 026201341X
• ISBN 13: 9780262013413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1294
• Editor: Gazzaniga Director Michael S, Bizzi Emilio, Caramazza Professor Alfonso, Chalupa Vice President For Research Leo M, Grafton Scott T, Heatherton PhD Todd F