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Title Brain, perception, memory : advances in cognitive neuroscience / edited by Johan J. Bolhuis
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, [1], 371 pages) : illustrations, diagrams, graphs
Series Oxford medical publications
Oxford medical publications.
Contents Part one: Mechanisms of perception and attention. From vision to action: how the primate brain encodes and remembers visuomotor space / Michael S.A. Graziano, Mary E. Wheeler and Charles G. Gross -- Integrating information from different senses in the superior colliculus / Barry E. Stein [and others] -- Response synchronization, a neuronal code for relatedness / Wolf Singer -- Visual attention in mind and brain / John Duncan -- Predispositions in perceptual and cognitive development / Mark H. Johnson and Johan J. Bolhuis -- Part two: Learning and memory: molecules, cells and circuits. Neural mechanisms of olfactory recognition memory / Peter A. Brennan and Eric B. Keverne -- The neural basis of avian song learning and perception / David F. Clayton -- The avian hippocampal formation and memory for hoarded food: spatial learning out in the real world / Tom V. Smulders and Timothy J. DeVoogd -- To consolidate or not to consolidate: what are the questions? / Yadin Dudai and Richard G.M. Morris -- Genetic strategies for the study of hippocampal-based memory storage / Danny G. Winder and Eric R. Kandel -- Neuronal correlates of recognition memory / Malcolm W. Brown -- Part three: Learning and memory: cognitive systems in animals and humans. Skill learning: the role of the cerebellum / David A.T. King and Richard F. Thompson -- Brain systems and the regulation of memory consolidation / James L. McGaugh [and others] -- How the brain learns about danger / Karim Nader and Joseph E. LeDoux -- Models of memory: the case of imprinting / Patrick Bateson -- The hippocampus, perirhinal corlex and memory in the monkey / Mark J. Buckley and David Gaffan -- Functional neuroimaging and memory systems / Raymond J. Dolan -- To have but not to hold / Lawrence Weiskrantz -- Part four: Epilogue. In memory / Gabriel Horn
Summary With contributions from Patrick Bateson, Robert Hinde, Eric Kandel and James McGaugh, this is an authoritative and comprehensive overview of current knowledge of the essential neural mechanisms of perception, learning and memory
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cognitive neuroscience.
Neuropsychology.
Visual perception.
Perception.
Senses and sensation.
Cognition.
Memory.
Learning.
Smell.
Cerebellum.
Brain -- physiology
Neuropsychology
Visual Perception
Perception
Sensation
Cognition
Memory
Learning
Smell
Superior Colliculi
Hippocampus
Cerebellum
visual perception.
cognition.
smell (sense)
memory (psychological concept)
Visual perception
Smell
Senses and sensation
Perception
Neuropsychology
Memory
Learning
Cognition
Cerebellum
Cognitive neuroscience
Form Electronic book
Author Bolhuis, Johan J
LC no. 00056527
ISBN 0198524838
9780198524830
019852482X
9780198524823
9780191689246
0191689246