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Chapter 1 - A Framework for Mind and Brain
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Chapter 2 - The Brain
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Chapter 3 - Observing the Brain
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Chapter 4 - The Art of Seeing
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Chapter 5 - Sound, Speech, and Music Perception
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Chapter 6 - Language and Thought
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Chapter 7 - Learning and Remembering
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Chapter 8 - Attention and Consciousness
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Chapter 9 - Decisions, Goals, and Actions
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Chapter 10 - Humans Are Social Beings
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Chapter 11 - Feelings
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Chapter 12 - Sleep and Levels of Consciousness
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Chapter 13 - Disorders of Consciousness
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Chapter 14 - Growing Up
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Index
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About the book
Description
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.
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.
Key Features
- Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (College) (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association
- Presents an easy-to-read introduction to mind-brain science based on a simple functional diagram linked to specific brain functions
- Provides new, up-to-date, colorful brain images directly from research labs
- Contains "In the News" boxes that describe the newest research and augment foundational content
- Includes both a student and instructor website with basic terms and definitions, chapter guides, study questions, drawing exercises, downloadable lecture slides, test bank, flashcards, sample syllabi and links to multimedia resources
- Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (College) (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association
- Presents an easy-to-read introduction to mind-brain science based on a simple functional diagram linked to specific brain functions
- Provides new, up-to-date, colorful brain images directly from research labs
- Contains "In the News" boxes that describe the newest research and augment foundational content
- Includes both a student and instructor website with basic terms and definitions, chapter guides, study questions, drawing exercises, downloadable lecture slides, test bank, flashcards, sample syllabi and links to multimedia resources
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ISBN
978-0-12-803813-0
Language
English
Published
2019
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Imprint
Academic Press