The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience
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Þessi metsölubók kemur nú út í fimmtu útgáfu, uppfærð rækilega í takt við breyttar aðferðir við rannsóknir á hugsun og heila, og veitir heildstæðan og aðgengilegan leiðarvísi um hugræn taugavísindi. Jamie Ward kynnir á einfaldan hátt byggingu og starfsemi taugakerfisins, sem og allar helstu aðferðir greinarinnar, með það að markmiði að nemendur skilji hvernig nýta má þær til að varpa ljósi á taugafræðilegan grunn hugsunar.
Bókin veitir heildstætt yfirlit yfir nýjustu kenningar og niðurstöður í öllum lykilviðfangsefnum hugrænna taugavísinda, þar á meðal sjón, heyrn, athygli, minni, tal og mál, stýrifærni, félags- og tilfinningahegðun og þroskataugavísindi. Í gegnum bókina eru raundæmi, fréttaumfjöllun, dæmi úr daglegu lífi og kennslufræðilegir þættir sem hjálpa nemendum að ná utan um flóknari hugmyndir greinarinnar.
Í þessari útgáfu er aukin umfjöllun um vitund, sameinaður kafli um læsi og talnaskilning og meiri umfjöllun um heilanet og reiknilíkön. Bókin er skrifuð á lifandi máli af fremsta fræðimanni á sviðinu, prentuð í lit með fjölda skýringarmynda, og nýtist bæði sem kjarnabók í hugrænum taugavísindum og í námskeiðum um hugsun, hugræna taugasálfræði, líffræðilega sálfræði eða heila og hegðun.
Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated fifth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function, as well as all the key methods and procedures of cognitive neuroscience, with a view to helping students understand how they can be used to shed light on the neural basis of cognition.
The book presents a comprehensive overview of the latest theories and findings in all the key topics in cognitive neuroscience, including vision, hearing, attention, memory, speech and language, executive function, social and emotional behavior, and developmental neuroscience. Throughout, case studies, newspaper reports, everyday examples, and student-friendly pedagogy are used to help students understand the more challenging ideas that underpin the subject.
This edition features expanded coverage of consciousness, a combined chapter on literacy and numeracy, and increased coverage of brain networks and computational approaches. Written in an engaging style by a leading researcher in the field and presented in full color including numerous illustrative materials, this book will be invaluable as a core text for undergraduate modules in cognitive neuroscience.
It can also be used as a key text on courses in cognition, cognitive neuropsychology, biopsychology, or brain and behavior. Those embarking on research will find it an invaluable starting point and reference. This textbook is supported by an extensive collection of free digital resources for students and instructors, including lectures by leading researchers, links to key studies and interviews, multiple-choice questions, and interactive flashcards to test your knowledge.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781040324196
- 9781032552927
- ePub
- 5
- Jamie Ward
- English
- 2025-04-25
- 100
- 2
- 2
Kaflar
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the author
- Preface to the fifth edition
- 1 Introducing cognitive neuroscience
- Cognitive neuroscience in historical perspective
- Does cognitive psychology need the brain?
- Does neuroscience need cognitive psychology?
- The future of cognitive neuroscience
- 2 Introducing the brain
- Structure and function of the neuron
- The gross organization of the brain
- The cerebral cortex
- The midbrain and hindbrain
- 3 The electrophysiological brain
- In search of neural representations: single-cell recordings
- Electroencephalography and event-related potentials
- Mental chronometry in electrophysiology and cognitive psychology
- Magnetoencephalography
- 4 The imaged brain
- Structural imaging
- Functional imaging
- From image to cognitive theory: experimental design
- Analyzing data from functional imaging
- Interpreting data from functional imaging
- Why do functional imaging data sometimes disagree with lesion data?
- Brain-reading: is “Big Brother” round the corner?
- 5 The lesioned brain and stimulated brain
- Dissociations and associations in neuropsychology
- Single-case studies in cognitive neuropsychology
- Group studies and lesion-deficit analysis in neuropsychology
- Animal models in neuropsychology
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
- Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES)
- 6 The developing brain
- Structural development of the brain
- Functional development of the brain
- Nature and nurture of individual differences
- 7 The seeing brain
- From eye to brain
- Cortical blindness and “blindsight”
- Functional specialization of the visual cortex beyond V1
- Recognizing objects
- Recognizing faces
- Vision imagined
- 8 The hearing brain
- The nature of sound
- From ear to brain
- Basic processing of auditory information
- Music perception
- Voice perception
- Speech perception
- 9 The attending brain
- Spatial and nonspatial attentional process
- The role of the frontoparietal network in attention
- Theories of attention
- Neglect as a disorder of spatial attention and awareness
- 10 The acting brain
- A basic cognitive framework for movement and action
- The role of the frontal lobes in movement and action
- Action comprehension and imitation
- Acting on Objects
- Fronto-striatal and cerebellar networks in action
- 11 The remembering brain
- Short-term and working memory
- Different types of long-term memory
- Amnesia
- Functions of the hippocampus and medial temporal lobes in memory
- Theories of remembering, knowing, and forgetting
- The role of the prefrontal cortex in long-term memory
- 12 The speaking brain
- Spoken word recognition
- Semantic memory and the meaning of words
- Understanding and producing sentences
- Retrieving and producing spoken words
- 13 The literate and numerate brain
- Visual recognition of letters, words, and numbers
- Skilled reading: from spelling to sound and meaning
- Developmental dyslexia
- Symbolic and nonsymbolic number cognition
- 14 The executive brain
- Anatomical and functional divisions of the prefrontal cortex
- Executive functions in practice
- The organization of executive functions
- The role of the anterior cingulate in executive functions
- 15 The conscious brain
- Levels of consciousness
- Contents of consciousness: the external world
- Contents of consciousness: awareness of our inner world
- 16 The social and emotional brain
- Theories of emotion
- Neural substrates of emotion processing
- Reading faces
- Understanding other minds
- References
- Index