Functional Neuroimaging of Visual Cognition
Attention and Performance XX
Published on 1. November 2003
Book
Hardback
572 pages
978-0-19-852845-6 (ISBN)
Description
The latest volume in the critically acclaimed and highly influential Attention and Performance series focuses on the role that functional neuroimaging plays in visual cognition. Functional neuroimaging has greatly enhanced our knowledge of the brain, and has been one of the most important tools in cognitive neuroscience. At the same time, the full power of neuroimaging can be realized only if there is convergence with theories based on other approaches including computational modelling, behavioural experiments, and electrophysiology in the behaving animal. In this book, Nancy Kanwisher and John Duncan have brought together leading cognitive neuroscientists to present groundbreaking new research on the neural bases of vision. The first part of the book considers the degree to which visual processing in the brain is modular, including contributions from both sceptics and proponents of modularity. Part 2 focuses on object recognition, in particular the role of the ventral visual pathway. In part 3, the mechanisms of visual attention are discussed.
The final part of the book explores the relationship between vision and action, with a look at the neurophysiology of sensorimotor integration. In additional chapters, Giacomo Rizzolatti discusses research on mirror neurons and their implications for understanding the actions and intentions of others, while Michael Posner considers what we have achieved so far with neuroimaging, and looks to the future and the next steps in our quest to understand brain function. Superbly edited and full of stunning colour images, this will be one of the key publications in the field of cognitive neuroscience.
The final part of the book explores the relationship between vision and action, with a look at the neurophysiology of sensorimotor integration. In additional chapters, Giacomo Rizzolatti discusses research on mirror neurons and their implications for understanding the actions and intentions of others, while Michael Posner considers what we have achieved so far with neuroimaging, and looks to the future and the next steps in our quest to understand brain function. Superbly edited and full of stunning colour images, this will be one of the key publications in the field of cognitive neuroscience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Students and researchers in cognitive science, neuroscientists
Illustrations
diagr., halftone, num. col. ill.
numerous full colour & halftone diagrams
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852845-6 (9780198528456)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
NANCY KANWISHER, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, USA and JOHN DUNCAN, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
Content
1. Understanding the actions of others; PART 1: MODULARITY: SPLITTING THE ATOM OF VISUAL COGNITION; 2. Core knowledge; 3. The evolution of human neocortex: Is the human brain fundamentally different that that of other mammals?; 4. Analysis of topographically organized patterns of response in fMRI data: Distributed representations of objects in the ventral temporal cortex; 5. Time as coding space in the cerebral cortex; 6. Separate modifiability and the search for processing modules; PART 2: INVESTIGATIONS OF THE VENTRAL VISUAL PATHWAY: EXTRACTING AND REPRESENTING VISUAL OBJECTS; 7. Approaches to visual recognition; 8. The functional organization of the ventral visual pathway and its relationship to object recognition; 9. The cartography of human visual object areas; 10. The neural bases of subliminal priming; 11. Audio-visual associative learning enhances responses to auditory stimuli in visual cortex; 12. Neural representation of object images in the macaque inferotemporal cortex; 13. Plasticity and functional brain development: The case of face processing; PART 3: MECHANISMS OF VISUAL ATTENTION; 14. Neurobiology of human spatial attention: modulation, generation, and integration; 15. Towards a neural basis of human visual attention: Evidence from functional brain imaging; 16. The influence of scene organization on attention: Psychophysics and electrophysiology; 17. Endogenous and stimulus-driven mechanisms of task control; 18. The role of competitive circuits in extrastriate cortex in selecting spatially superimposed stimuli; 19. The imaging of visual attention; PART 4: SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; 20. Neural selection and control of action; 21. Human brain imaging reveals a parietal area specialized for grasping; 22. A framework for the investigation of directed cortical interactions: theoretical background and application to dynamic sensorimotor mapping; 23. From viewing of movements to understanding and imitation of other persons' acts: MEG studies of the human mirror-neuron system; 24. Neuropsychological perspectives on sensorimotor integration: Eye-hand coordination and visually guided reaching; FINALE; 25. The achievement of brain imaging: past and future