Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience (Bradford Books) - Softcover

Kosslyn, Stephen M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262611104 ISBN 13: 9780262611107

Publisher: MIT Press, 1995

Synopsis

Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience This text provides students and researchers with a foundation for examining how brain function gives rise to mental activities such as perception, memory and language. It is grouped into sections that cover attention, vision, auditory and somatosensory systems, memory and higher cortical. Full description

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Review:

-- Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Contemporary Psychology

-- Howard Eichenbaum, The Quarterly Review of Biology

" This book is a must for any serious graduate student... The editors' careful organization guides us through the issues in most of the critical areas of this still emerging field, and in doing so, lays out how and where progress is being made." -- Howard Eichenbaum, The Quarterly Review of Biology

" The editors are distinguished scientists who have selected a sample of excellent published articles intended to serve as the foundations for this exciting field. They have provided clear and persuasive introductions to the entire volume and to each of its five parts." -- Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Contemporary Psychology

& quot; This book is a must for any serious graduate student... The editors' careful organization guides us through the issues in most of the critical areas of this still emerging field, and in doing so, lays out how and where progress is being made.& quot; -- Howard Eichenbaum, The Quarterly Review of Biology

& quot; The editors are distinguished scientists who have selected a sample of excellent published articles intended to serve as the foundations for this exciting field. They have provided clear and persuasive introductions to the entire volume and to each of its five parts.& quot; -- Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Contemporary Psychology

"This book is a must for any serious graduate student... The editors' careful organization guides us through the issues in most of the critical areas of this still emerging field, and in doing so, lays out how and where progress is being made."--Howard Eichenbaum, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"The editors are distinguished scientists who have selected a sample of excellent published articles intended to serve as the foundations for this exciting field. They have provided clear and persuasive introductions to the entire volume and to each of its five parts."--Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Contemporary Psychology

About the Author:

Richard Andersen is Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Cognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0262611104
• ISBN 13: 9780262611107
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 730