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Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience
A Beginner's Guide
New, fully revamped edition of the most accessible introduction to the neural basis of cognition available to undergraduate students
Nicole M. Gage (Author), Bernard Baars (Author)
9780128038130, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 3 April 2018
564 pages
23.5 x 19 x 3.5 cm, 1.11 kg
Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, is a comprehensive, yet accessible, beginner’s guide on cognitive neuroscience. This text takes a distinctive, commonsense approach to help newcomers easily learn the basics of how the brain functions when we learn, act, feel, speak and socialize. This updated edition includes contents and features that are both academically rigorous and engaging, including a step-by-step introduction to the visible brain, colorful brain illustrations, and new chapters on emerging topics in cognition research, including emotion, sleep and disorders of consciousness, and discussions of novel findings that highlight cognitive neuroscience’s practical applications. Written by two leading experts in the field and thoroughly updated, this book remains an indispensable introduction to the study of cognition.
1. A framework for mind and brain 2. The Brain 3. Observing the Brain 4. The Art of Seeing 5. Sound, Speech, and Music Perception 6. Language and Thought 7. Learning and Remembering 8. Attention and Consciousness 9. Decisions, Goals, and Actions 10. Humans are Social Beings 11. Feelings 12. Sleep and levels of consciousness 13. Disorders of Consciousness 14. Growing Up
Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]
