Methods in Mind (Cognitive Neuroscience) - Hardcover

Senior, Carl; Russell, Tamara; Gazzaniga, Michael S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262195410 ISBN 13: 9780262195416

Publisher: MIT Press, 2006

Synopsis

The evolution of cognitive neuroscience has been spurred by the development of increasingly sophisticated investigative techniques to study human cognition. In Methods in Mind, experts examine the wide variety of tools available to cognitive neuroscientists, paying particular attention to the ways in which different methods can be integrated to strengthen empirical findings and how innovative uses for established techniques can be developed. The book will be a uniquely valuable resource for the researcher seeking to expand his or her repertoire of investigative techniques.

Each chapter explores a different approach. These include transcranial magnetic stimulation, cognitive neuropsychiatry, lesion studies in nonhuman primates, computational modeling, psychophysiology, single neurons and primate behavior, grid computing, eye movements, fMRI, electroencephalography, imaging genetics, magnetoencephalography, neuropharmacology, and neuroendocrinology. As mandated, authors focus on convergence and innovation in their fields; chapters highlight such cross-method innovations as the use of the fMRI signal to constrain magnetoencephalography, the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to guide rapid transcranial magnetic stimulation at a specific frequency, and the successful integration of neuroimaging and genetic analysis. Computational approaches depend on increased computing power, and one chapter describes the use of distributed or grid computing to analyze massive datasets in cyberspace. Each chapter author is a leading authority in the technique discussed.

Contributors:
Peyman Adjamian, Peter A. Bandettini, Mark Baxter, Anthony S. David, James Dobson, Ian Foster, Michael Gazzaniga, Dietmar G. Heinke, Stephen Hall, John M. Henderson, Glyn W. Humphreys, Andreas Meyer-Lindenburg, Venkata Mattay, Elisabeth A. Murray, Gina Rippon, Tamara Russell, Carl Senior, Philip Shaw, Krish D. Singh, Marc A. Sommer, Lauren Stewart, John D. Van Horn, Jens Voeckler, Vincent Walsh, Daniel R. Weinberger, Michael Wilde, Jeffrey Woodward, Robert H. Wurtz, Eun Young Yoon, Yong Zhao

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About the Author

Carl Senior is University Lecturer in Psychology and a member of the Neurosciences Research Institute at Aston University, Birmingham, U.K. Tamara Russell is Royal Society and Neurosciences Institute for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders Visiting Fellow at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Michael S. Gazzaniga is Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Professor of Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College. He is editor-in-chief of The Cognitive Neurosciences III (MIT Press, 2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262195410
• ISBN 13: 9780262195416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376