Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind, 3rd Edition - Softcover

Michael S. Gazzaniga; Richard B. Ivry; George R. Mangun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393111369 ISBN 13: 9780393111361

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

Synopsis

Three leading figures in the field of cognitive neuroscience provide an engaging, narrative driven overview of this path-breaking field.

Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, the authors balance cognitive theory, with neuroscientific and neuropsychological evidence to reveal what we currently know about how the human mind works and to encourage students to think like cognitive neuroscientists. The text has been reorganized to move more seamlessly from micro to macro level topics, and its underlying pedagogy strengthened in order to make it an even more effective teaching tool. Maintaining its commitment to highlight the most cutting-edge trends in the field, the third edition includes the first ever standalone chapter of its kind on social neuroscience.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Gazzaniga (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology) is the David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He founded and presides over the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. He is president of the American Psychological Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. Professor Gazzaniga’s research focuses on split-brain patients. He has held positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara; New York University; the State University of New York, Stony Brook; Cornell University Medical College; and the University of California, Davis.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0393111369
• ISBN 13: 9780393111361
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 689