The Physiology of Cognitive Processes
Published on 1. June 2003
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-19-852559-2 (ISBN)
Description
This work reveals discoveries being made about the brain processes behind our everyday cognitive functions, such as vision, memory, and attention. Presenting the work of world leaders in cognitive neuroscience, the book shows the amazing advances being made into understanding the neuronal processes that enable us to look, learn, make decisions, and understand the world around us.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Cognitive neuroscientists, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists
Illustrations
num. fig., 32 farbige Bildtafeln
32pp colour plates and numerous figures
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852559-2 (9780198525592)
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Persons
Andrew Parker, Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford, Andrew Derrington, Professor of Psychology, University of Nottingham, and Colin Blakemore, Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Functional measurements of human ventral occipital cortex: retinotopy and colour; 3. The uses of colour vision: behavioural and physiological distinctiveness of colour stimuli; 4. The temporal resolution of neural codes: does response latency have a unique role?; 5. The neural basis of the blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging signal; 6. Exploring the cortical evidence of a sensory-discrimination process; 7. Neuronal activity and its links with the perception of multi-stable figures; 8. The role of attention in visual processing; 9. The neural selection and control of saccades by the frontal eye field; 10. Evidence concerning how neurons of the perirhinal cortex may effect familiarity discrimination; 11. The neural basis of episodic memory: evidence from functional neuroimaging; 12. Against memory systems; 13. The prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts and cognition; 14. Role of uncertainty in sensorimotor control