Neurobiology of Cognition

Neurobiology of Cognition - Cognition Special Issues

1st MIT Press Edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

The six essays in this book focus on the empirically answerable issue of whether and to what extent it is possible to explain observations about the mind in terms of observations about the brain.

Neurobiologists and cognitive scientists agree that there is a need for a biologically consistent and realistic description of human cognition. The six essays in this book focus on the empirically answerable issue of whether and to what extent it is possible to explain observations about the mind in terms of observations about the brain. They provide wide-ranging examples of this exciting, ongoing endeavor to provide a neurobiology of cognition from grand scheme attempts to explain the full extent of human cognition, through an examination of the functional structures for echolocation in the bat and the possibilities for its neuronal instantiation, to the cellular and molecular structures of memory and learning.

Contents
Some Agenda Item for a Neurobiology of Cognition: An Introduction, Peter D. Eimas, Albert M. Galaburda  Time-Locked Multiregional Retroactivation: A Systems-Level Proposal for the Neural Substrates of Recall and Recognition, Antonio R. Damasio  Neuronal Models of Cognitive Functions, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Stanislas Dehaene  Seeking the Neurobiological Bases of Speech Perception, Joanne L. Miller, Peter W. Jusczyk  Perception and its Neuronal Mechanisms, Richard Held  A View of the World Through the Bat's Ear: The Formation of Acoustic Images in Echolocation, James A. Simmons  The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Carl W. Cotman, Gary S. Lynch

Book information

ISBN: 9780262550192
Publisher: The MIT Press
Imprint: The MIT Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st MIT Press Edition
DEWEY: 612.8
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 250
Weight: 449g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 13mm