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Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience

A Beginner's Guide

Book • Second Edition2019

Authors:

Nicole M. Gage and Bernard J. Baars

Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience

A Beginner's Guide

Book • Second Edition2019

 

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    Chapter 1 - A Framework for Mind and Brain

    Pages 1-16

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    Chapter 2 - The Brain

    Pages 17-52

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    Chapter 3 - Observing the Brain

    Pages 53-97

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    Chapter 4 - The Art of Seeing

    Pages 99-141

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    Chapter 5 - Sound, Speech, and Music Perception

    Pages 143-184

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    Chapter 6 - Language and Thought

    Pages 185-214

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    Chapter 7 - Learning and Remembering

    Pages 215-246

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    Chapter 8 - Attention and Consciousness

    Pages 247-277

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    Chapter 9 - Decisions, Goals, and Actions

    Pages 279-319

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    Chapter 10 - Humans Are Social Beings

    Pages 321-356

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    Chapter 11 - Feelings

    Pages 357-391

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    Chapter 12 - Sleep and Levels of Consciousness

    Pages 393-435

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    Chapter 13 - Disorders of Consciousness

    Pages 437-451

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    Chapter 14 - Growing Up

    Pages 453-493

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    Glossary

    Pages 495-510

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    References

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    Index

    Pages 529-547

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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

Authors

Nicole M. Gage

Bernard J. Baars