Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind

Cover (Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind)
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
Abbreviations