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.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Preface - p. xiii 6. Chapter 1. A Framework for Mind and Brain - p. 1 7. Chapter 2. The Brain - p. 17 8. Chapter 3. Observing the Brain - p. 53 9. Chapter 4. The Art of Seeing - p. 99 10. Chapter 5. Sound, Speech, and Music Perception - p. 143 11. Chapter 6. Language and Thought - p. 185 12. Chapter 7. Learning and Remembering - p. 215 13. Chapter 8. Attention and Consciousness - p. 247 14. Chapter 9. Decisions, Goals, and Actions - p. 279 15. Chapter 10. Humans Are Social Beings - p. 321 16. Chapter 11. Feelings - p. 357 17. Chapter 12. Sleep and Levels of Consciousness - p. 393 18. Chapter 13. Disorders of Consciousness - p. 437 19. Chapter 14. Growing Up - p. 453 20. Glossary - p. 495 21. References - p. 511 22. Index - p. 529
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.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Preface - p. xiii 6. Chapter 1. A Framework for Mind and Brain - p. 1 7. Chapter 2. The Brain - p. 17 8. Chapter 3. Observing the Brain - p. 53 9. Chapter 4. The Art of Seeing - p. 99 10. Chapter 5. Sound, Speech, and Music Perception - p. 143 11. Chapter 6. Language and Thought - p. 185 12. Chapter 7. Learning and Remembering - p. 215 13. Chapter 8. Attention and Consciousness - p. 247 14. Chapter 9. Decisions, Goals, and Actions - p. 279 15. Chapter 10. Humans Are Social Beings - p. 321 16. Chapter 11. Feelings - p. 357 17. Chapter 12. Sleep and Levels of Consciousness - p. 393 18. Chapter 13. Disorders of Consciousness - p. 437 19. Chapter 14. Growing Up - p. 453 20. Glossary - p. 495 21. References - p. 511 22. Index - p. 529
