Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
2nd Edition
Published on 6. April 2010
Book
Hardback
672 pages
978-0-12-375070-9 (ISBN)
Description
Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness, Second Edition, provides students and readers with an overview of the study of the human brain and its cognitive development.It discusses brain molecules and their primary function, which is to help carry brain signals to and from the different parts of the human body. These molecules are also essential for understanding language, learning, perception, thinking, and other cognitive functions of our brain. The book also presents the tools that can be used to view the human brain through brain imaging or recording.New to this edition are Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience text boxes, each one focusing on a leading researcher and their topic of expertise. There is a new chapter on Genes and Molecules of Cognition; all other chapters have been thoroughly revised, based on the most recent discoveries.This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in Psychology, Neuroscience, and related disciplines in which cognitive neuroscience is taught.
Reviews / Votes
"This extremely exciting book provides the reader the necessary basic information to appreciate how the traditional separation between the mind and the brain is nowadays challenged by the nomological network generated by the careful observation of the biological-neurological events and the related cognitive inferred concepts. Indeed, even though the ancient debate mind versus body has never ceased to be a subject of discussion by scientists and philosophers, currently it has become again a productive and stimulating scientific question, mainly because of the availability of functional neuroimaging techniques that has attracted the convergent interest of biologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists...this second edition looks quite appealing and the editors should be very proud of it. The numerous elegant and very instructive colored figures and schemas as well as the quality of printing enrich the "charme" of this book, which certainly deserves to be suggested to anyone interested in a better insight on the neurological, emotional, and cognitive processes of our brain." --Childs Nerv SystMore details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate and graduate students in Psychology, Neuroscience, and related disciplines in which cognitive neuroscience is taught.
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-12-375070-9 (9780123750709)
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Additional editions
Bernard J. Baars | Nicole M. Gage
Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
E-Book
02/2010
2nd Edition
Academic Press
€63.95
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Previous edition
Bernard J. Baars | Nicole M. Gage
Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
Book
06/2007
Academic Press
€68.19
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Persons
http://vesicle.nsi.edu/users/baars/ Dr. Gage is a researcher at the University of California, Irvine, and the director of UCI's Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory. She actively teaches in the area of consciousness and cognition and is the coauthor, with Bernard Baars, of our highly successful graduate-level cognitive neuroscience textbook on which Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience is based.
Content
1. Mind and brain2. A framework3. Neurons and their connections4. The tools: Imaging the living brain5. The brain6. Vision7. Hearing and speech8. Attention and consciousness9. Learning and memory10. Thinking and problem-solving11. Language12. Goals, executive control, and action13. Emotion14. Social cognition: Perceiving the mental states of others15. Development16. The genes and molecules of cognitionAppendix -- Methods for observing the living brain (Ramsoy, Olaf Paulson, Copenhagen)