Findings and Current Opinion in Cognitive Neuroscience

Larry R. Squire, Stephen Michael Kosslyn

MIT Press, 1998 - Medical - 381 pages

Cognitive neuroscience has undergone explosive growth in the past ten years. New brain-imaging technologies have allowed researchers to address questions that until recently remained in the realm of mere speculation. Moreover, better computers and new theories have led to more detailed models of neural function. These developments have made it possible to link perception, attention, memory, and other aspects of cognition to neurobiology.Because researchers come to cognitive neuroscience from a variety of fields, researchers and students alike find it difficult to ascertain the core literature. This volume, which contains forty-six review articles from recent issues of Current Opinion in Neurobiology, provides easy access to the current state of theory and findings in the field. The book is organized into five sections: Perception and Attention, Neuronal Plasticity and Memory, Cognition, The Organization of Action, and Development and Structure. The articles contain bibliographies to enable the reader to pursue individual topics in greater depth.

Contents

• The processing and encoding of information in: 15
• Brain representation of objectcentered: 25
• The binding problem: 31
• Cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual: 39
• normality: 45
• learning to see: 53
• Plasticity in visual perception and physiology: 59
• Neuronal Plasticity and Memory: 65
• from behaviour: 115
• hippocampal: 121
• CREB and the formation of longterm: 137
• Temperament and personality: 147
• Sex sexual orientation and sex hormones: 155
• Perception and awareness after brain: 161
• Stress and cognitive function: 173
• Noise neural codes and cortical: 185
• Neurobiology of skill and habit learning: 205
• Varieties of priming 99: 213
• Transgenic models of neurodegenerative: 219
• The Organization of Action: 229
• Distributed motor processing in cerebral: 239
• Functions and structures of the motor cortices: 249
• Per E Roland and Karl Zilles: 257
• Parietal control of hand action: 263
• Role of the cerebellum in movement control: 273
• The representation of temporal information: 281
• memory and learning: 289
• Development and Structure: 305
• Neurotrophins and activitydependent: 323
• Plasticity of adult sensorimotor: 333
• Integrating human brain maps: 339
• Brain and cognitive development: 345
• Learning and representation in speech: 353
• Crosslinguistic approaches to speech: 365

Bibliographic information

• Title: Findings and Current Opinion in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Editors: Larry R. Squire, Stephen Michael Kosslyn
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: MIT Press, 1998
• ISBN: 026269204X, 9780262692045
• Length: 381 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Internal Medicine; Medical / Mental Health; Medical / Neurology; Medical / Neuroscience; Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology; Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition; Psychology / Neuropsychology