Essentials of cognitive neuroscience

Content: Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Brief Contents
 Contents
 Preface
 Acknowledgments
 Methodology Boxes
 Walk Through of Pedagogical Features
 Companion Website
 Section I The Neurobiology of Thinking
 Introduction to Section I The Neurobiology of Thinking
 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE? OR \"\"HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE\"\"? OR \"\"NEUROSCIENCE-WITH-DIRECT IMPLICATIONS-FOR-UNDERSTANDING-HUMAN-BEHAVIOR\"\"?
 Chapter 1 Introduction and History
 KEY THEMES
 TIMELINE: NINTEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORIGINS OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
 A BRIEF (AND SELECTIVE) HISTORY
 Localization of function vs. mass action. The first scientifically rigorous demonstrations of localization of functionWHAT IS A BRAIN AND WHAT DOES IT DO?
 LOOKING AHEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
 END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS
 REFERENCES
 OTHER SOURCES USED
 FURTHER READING
 Chapter 2 The Brain
 KEY THEMES
 PEP TALK
 GROSS ANATOMY
 The cerebral cortex
 THE NEURON
 Electrical and chemical properties of the neuron
 Neuroanatomical techniques exploit the physiology of the neuron
 OSCILLATORY FLUCTUATIONS IN THE MEMBRANE POTENTIAL
 Neurons are never truly \"at rest\"
 Synchronous oscillation
 COMPLICATED, AND COMPLEX. END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONSREFERENCES
 OTHER SOURCES USED
 FURTHER READING
 Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action
 Introduction to Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action
 Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals
 KEY THEMES
 THE DOMINANT SENSE IN PRIMATES
 ORGANIZATION OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM
 The visual field
 The retinotopic organization of primary visual cortex
 INFORMATION PROCESSING IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX --
BOTTOM UP FEATURE DETECTION
 The V1 neuron as feature detector
 Columns, hypercolumns, and pinwheels. INFORMATION PROCESSING IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX --
INTERACTIVITYFeedforward and feedback projections of V1
 Circularity? It can depend on your perspective
 The relation between visual processing and the brain\'s physiological state
 WHERE DOES SENSATION END? WHERE DOES PERCEPTION BEGIN?
 END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS
 REFERENCES
 OTHER SOURCES USED
 FURTHER READING
 Chapter 4 Audition and Somatosensation
 KEY THEMES
 APOLOGIA
 AUDITION
 Auditory sensation
 Auditory perception
 Adieu to audition
 SOMATOSENSATION
 Transduction of mechanical and thermal energy, and of pain
 Somatotopy. Somatosensory plasticityPhantom limbs and phantom pain
 Proprioception
 Adieu to sensation
 END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS
 REFERENCES
 OTHER SOURCES USED
 FURTHER READING
 Chapter 5 The Visual System
 KEY THEMES
 FAMILIAR PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES, APPLIED TO HIGHER-LEVEL REPRESENTATIONS
 TWO PARALLEL PATHWAYS
 A diversity of projections from V1
 A functional dissociation of visual perception of what an object is vs. where it is located
 Interconnectedness within and between the two pathways
 THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE VENTRAL VISUAL PROCESSING STREAM.