Postle B.R. Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience

2nd edition. — Hoboken: Wiley, 2020. — 558 p.Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience introduces and explicates key principles and concepts in cognitive neuroscience in such a way that the reader will be equipped to critically evaluate the ever-growing body of findings that the field is generating. For some students this knowledge will be needed for subsequent formal study, and for all readers it will be needed to evaluate and interpret reports about cognitive neuroscience research that make their way daily into the news media and popular culture. The book seeks to do so in a style that will give the student a sense of what it's like to be a cognitive neuroscientist: when confronted with a problem, how does one proceed? How does one read and interpret research that's outside of one's sub-area of specialization? How do two scientists advancing mutually incompatible models interrelate? Most importantly, what does it feel like to partake in the wonder and excitement of this most dynamic and fundamental of sciences?Preface
The Neurobiology of Thinking
Introduction and History
The Brain
Methods for Cognitive Neuroscience
Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action
Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals
Audition and Somatosensation
The Visual System
Spatial Cognition and Attention
Skeletomotor Control
Oculomotor Control and the Control of Attention
Mental Representation
Visual Object Recognition and Knowledge
Neural Bases of Memory
Declarative Long-Term Memory
Semantic Long-Term Memory
Working Memory
High-Level Cognition
Cognitive Control
Decision Making
Social Behavior
Emotion
Language
Consciousness
Glossary
Index