
The Cognitive Neurosciences
Michael S. Gazzaniga(Editor)
MIT Press
4th Edition
Published on 18. September 2009
Book
Hardback
1312 pages
978-0-262-01341-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
fourth edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
419 figures; 419 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 64 mm
Weight
3130 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01341-3 (9780262013413)
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Persons
Michael S. Gazzaniga is Professor of Psychology and Director for the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, he is the Director of the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, President of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethetics.
Editor
DirectorUniversity of California at Santa Barbara
Contributions
University of Pittsburgh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Johns Hopkins University
ProfessorJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine
California Institute Of Technology
California Institute Of Technology
University of California San Diego
Universita di Parma