Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind

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Front Matter
	Title Page
	Copyright
	Dedication
	About the Authors
	Brief Contents
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Contents
1 - A Brief History of Cognitive Neuroscience
	1.1 - A Historical Perspective
	1.2 - The Brain Story
	1.3 - The Psychological Story
	1.4 - The Instruments of Neuroscience
	1.5 - The Book in Your Hands
2 - Structure and Function of the Nervous System
	2.1 - The Cells of the Nervous System
	2.2 - Synaptic Transmission
	2.3 - Overview of Nervous System Structure
	2.4 - A Guided Tour of the Brain
	2.5 - The Cerebral Cortex
	2.6 - Connecting the Brain’s Components into Systems
	2.7 - Development of the Nervous System
3 - Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience
	3.1 - Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Methods
	3.2 - Studying the Damaged Brain
	3.3 - Methods to Perturb Neural Function
	3.4 - Structural Analysis of the Brain
	3.5 - Methods to Measure Neural Activity
	3.6 - The Marriage of Function and Structure: Neuroimaging
	3.7 - Connectivity Maps
	3.8 - Computational Neuroscience
	3.9 - Converging Methods
4 - Hemispheric Specialization
	4.1 - Anatomical Correlates of Hemispheric Specialization
	4.2 - Splitting the Brain: Cortical Disconnection
	4.3 - Evidence of Lateralized Brain Functions from Split-Brain Patients
	4.4 - The Interpreter
	4.5 - Evidence of Lateralized Brain Functions from the Normal and Malfunctioning Brain
	4.6 - The Evolutionary Basis of Hemispheric Specialization
5 - Sensation and Perception
	5.1 - Senses, Sensation, and Perception
	5.2 - Olfaction
	5.3 - Gustation
	5.4 - Somatosensation
	5.5 - Audition
	5.6 - Vision
	5.7 - From Sensation to Perception
	5.8 - Multimodal Perception: I See What You’re Sayin’
	5.9 - Perceptual Reorganization
	5.10 - Engineering for Compensation
6 - Object Recognition
	6.1 - Computational Problems in Object Recognition
	6.2 - Multiple Pathways for Visual Perception
	6.3 - Seeing Shapes and Perceiving Objects
	6.4 - Specificity of Object Recognition in Higher Visual Areas
	6.5 - Failures in Object Recognition
	6.6 - Prosopagnosia Is a Failure to Recognize Faces
7 - Attention
	7.1 - Selective Attention and the Anatomy of Attention
	7.2 - The Neuropsychology of Attention
	7.3 - Models of Attention
	7.4 - Neural Mechanisms of Attention and Perceptual Selection
	7.5 - Attentional Control Networks
8 - Action
	8.1 - The Anatomy and Control of Motor Structures
	8.2 - Computational Issues in Motor Control
	8.3 - Physiological Analysis of Motor Pathways
	8.4 - Goal Selection and Action Planning
	8.5 - Links Between Action and Perception
	8.6 - Recouping Motor Loss
	8.7 - Movement Initiation and the Basal Ganglia
	8.8 - Learning and Performing New Skills
9 - Memory
	9.1 - Learning and Memory, and Their Associated Anatomy
	9.2 - Memory Deficits: Amnesia
	9.3 - Mechanisms of Memory
	9.4 - The Medial Temporal Lobe Memory System
	9.5 - Distinguishing Human Memory Systems With Imaging
	9.6 - Memory Consolidation
	9.7 - Cellular Basis of Learning and Memory
10 - Emotion
	10.1 - What Is an Emotion?
	10.2 - Neural Systems Involved in Emotion Processing
	10.3 - Categorizing Emotions
	10.4 - Theories of Emotion Generation
	10.5 - The Amygdala
	10.6 - The Influence of Emotion on Learning
	10.7 - Interactions Between Emotion and Other Cognitive Processes
	10.8 - Emotion and Social Stimuli
	10.9 - Other Areas, Other Emotions
	10.10 - Get a Grip! Cognitive Control of Emotion
11 - Language
	11.1 - The Anatomy of Language and Language Deficits
	11.2 - The Fundamentals of Language in the Human Brain
	11.3 - Language Comprehension: Early Steps
	11.4 - Language Comprehension: Later Steps
	11.5 - Neural Models of Language Comprehension
	11.6 - Neural Models of Speech Production
	11.7 - Evolution of Language
12 - Cognitive Control
	12.1 - The Anatomy Behind Cognitive Control
	12.2 - Cognitive Control Deficits
	12.3 - Goal-Oriented Behavior
	12.4 - Decision Making
	12.5 - Goal Planning: Staying on Task
	12.6 - Mechanisms of Goal-Based Selection
	12.7 - Ensuring That Goal-Oriented Behaviors Succeed
13 - Social Cognition
	13.1 - Anatomical Substrates of Social Cognition
	13.2 - Social Interactions and Development
	13.3 - Social Behavioral Deficits in Acquired and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
	13.4 - Socrates’s Imperative: Know Thyself
	13.5 - Understanding the Mental States of Others
	13.6 - Neural Correlates of Experience Sharing Theory (Simulation Theory)
	13.7 - Neural Correlates of Mental State Attribution Theory (Theory Theory)
	13.8 - Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Mental States of Others
	13.9 - Social Knowledge
14 - The Consciousness Problem
	14.1 - The Mind–Brain Problem
	14.2 - The Anatomy of Consciousness
	14.3 - Levels of Arousal and Consciousness
	14.4 - The Organizational Architecture of Complex Systems
	14.5 - Access to Information
	14.6 - The Contents of Conscious Experience
	14.7 - Can Mental States Affect Brain Processing?
	14.8 - The Contents of Animal Consciousness
	14.9 - Sentience
	14.10 - Split-Brain Research as a Window Into Conscious Experience
Glossary
References
Credits
Index
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