Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience - Hardcover

Kosslyn, Stephen M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262111632 ISBN 13: 9780262111638

Publisher: Bradford Books, 1992

Synopsis

Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience is the first book of extensive readings in an exciting new field that is built on the assumption that "the mind is what the brain does," and that seeks to understand how brain function gives rise to mental activities such as perception, memory, and language. The editors, a cognitive scientist and a neuroscientist, have worked together to select contributions that provide the interdisciplinary foundations of this emerging field, putting them into context, both historically and with regard to current issues. Fifty-five articles are grouped in sections that cover attention, vision, auditory and somatosensory systems, memory, and higher cortical functions. They range from Gazzaniga and Bogen's discussion of functional effects of sectioning the cerebral commissure in man and Geschwind's classic study of the organization of language in the brain, published in the 1960s, to contemporary investigations by Schiller and Logothetis on color-opponent and broad-band channels of the primate visual system and by Bekkers and Stevens on presynaptic mechanisms for long-term potentiation in the hippocampus. The editors have provided both a general introduction and introductions to each of the five major sections.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Andersen is Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Review

The editors are distinguished scientists who have selected a sample ofexcellent published articles intended to serve as the foundations for thisexciting field. They have provided clear and persuasive introductions to theentire volume and to each of its five parts.―Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Contemporary Psychology (Endorsement)

This book is a must for any serious graduate student... The editors' careful organization guides us through the issues inmost of the critical areas of this still emerging field, and in doing so, laysout how and where progress is being made.―Howard Eichenbaum, The Quarterly Review of Biology (Endorsement)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bradford Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0262111632
• ISBN 13: 9780262111638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 729
• Editor: Andersen Richard A.