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1 online resource (610 p.) |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Methodology Boxes -- Walk Through of Pedagogical Features -- Companion Website -- Section I The Neurobiology of Thinking -- Introduction to Section I The Neurobiology of Thinking -- COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE? OR ""HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE""? OR ""NEUROSCIENCE-WITH-DIRECT IMPLICATIONS-FOR-UNDERSTANDING-HUMAN-BEHAVIOR""? -- Chapter 1 Introduction and History -- KEY THEMES -- TIMELINE: NINTEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORIGINS OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE -- A BRIEF (AND SELECTIVE) HISTORY |
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Localization of function vs. mass action -- The first scientifically rigorous demonstrations of localization of function -- WHAT IS A BRAIN AND WHAT DOES IT DO? -- LOOKING AHEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 2 The Brain -- KEY THEMES -- PEP TALK -- GROSS ANATOMY -- The cerebral cortex -- THE NEURON -- Electrical and chemical properties of the neuron -- Neuroanatomical techniques exploit the physiology of the neuron -- OSCILLATORY FLUCTUATIONS IN THE MEMBRANE POTENTIAL |
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Neurons are never truly "at rest" -- Synchronous oscillation -- COMPLICATED, AND COMPLEX -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action -- Introduction to Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action -- Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals -- KEY THEMES -- THE DOMINANT SENSE IN PRIMATES -- ORGANIZATION OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM -- The visual field -- The retinotopic organization of primary visual cortex |
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INFORMATION PROCESSING IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX -- BOTTOM UP FEATURE DETECTION -- The V1 neuron as feature detector -- Columns, hypercolumns, and pinwheels -- INFORMATION PROCESSING IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX -- INTERACTIVITY -- Feedforward and feedback projections of V1 -- Circularity? It can depend on your perspective -- The relation between visual processing and the brain's physiological state -- WHERE DOES SENSATION END? WHERE DOES PERCEPTION BEGIN? -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 4 Audition and Somatosensation -- KEY THEMES |
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APOLOGIA -- AUDITION -- Auditory sensation -- Auditory perception -- Adieu to audition -- SOMATOSENSATION -- Transduction of mechanical and thermal energy, and of pain -- Somatotopy -- Somatosensory plasticity -- Phantom limbs and phantom pain -- Proprioception -- Adieu to sensation -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter 5 The Visual System -- KEY THEMES -- FAMILIAR PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES, APPLIED TO HIGHER-LEVEL REPRESENTATIONS -- TWO PARALLEL PATHWAYS -- A diversity of projections from V1 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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A functional dissociation of visual perception of what an object is vs. where it is located |
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118468265 |
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1118468260 |
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