Publisher's Synopsis
"Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences" is a guide to developments in the cognitive neurosciences.;The book brings together a series of interviews with individuals in neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy and psychology that have appeared in the "Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience".;The ten interviews are divided into five sections: basic neuroscience approaches to cognition (Floyd Bloom and Mark Raichle), attentional and perceptual processes (Michael I. Posner and William T. Newsome), neural basis of memory (Randy Gallistel and Endel Tulving), language (Steven Puinker and Alfonso Caramazza), and imagery and consciousness (Stephen M. Kosslyn and Daniel C. Dennett).
