认知神经科学发展至今的全貌

领域的7位领导性学者对认知神经科学给出了迄今为止最为全面的阐述。目前尚未有中文版，但是这里贴出英文版的目录，从中可以得到认知神经科学发展至今的全貌。

Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience

Dale Purves, Elizabeth M. Brannon, Roberto Cabeza, Scott A. Huettel, Kevin S. LaBar, Michael L. Platt,

and Marty Woldorff, all at Duke University

Cognitive neuroscience is a new and rapidly evolving field that brings together cognitive psychology and neuroscience, drawing conceptual and technical elements from both these traditional disciplines. This union has been motivated by the exciting possibility of better understanding complex human brain functions that have puzzled thinkers for centuries. The emergence of cognitive neuroscience as a discipline in its own right over the last two decades is thus an expression of what many see as the next logical step for both neuroscience and cognitive psychology, driven by powerful new methods for

studying the human brain.

This book, written by seven leaders in the field, is intended to inform readers at all levels about the growing canon of cognitive neuroscience, and to make clear the many challenges that remain to be solved by the next generation. Chapters begin with a brief introduction and end with a summary; in addition to the narrative text, richly illustrated in full color, each chapter includes boxed material on topics of special interest. Extensive references to useful reviews, important original papers, and books are provided. In addition to an appendix that covers the essentials of neural signaling and an extensive glossary of key terms, each copy comes with Sylvius 4, which includes an interactive tutorial on human neuroanatomy and a digital atlas of human brain structure.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What Is Cognitive Neuroscience?

I. Principles of Neuroscience and Their Importance in Studying Cognitive Functions

1. The Human Nervous System: Structure and Function

Cellular Components of the Nervous System

Nerve Cells and Their Signaling Functions

Functional Organization of the Human Nervous System

Structural Organization of the Human Nervous System

Major Subdivisions of the Central Nervous System

The Brain’s Blood Supply

Boxes

Intracellular Recording from Nerve Cells

Canonical Organization of the Cerebral Cortex

Anatomical Terminology

2. Relevant Principles of Cognitive Psychology

Major Themes in Cognitive Psychology

Perception

Attention

Memory

Emotion and Social Cognition

Symbolic Representation

Executive Processing

Boxes

Information Theory

Connectionist Models

3. Exploring Cognitive Processes in Neural Terms

Brain Perturbations Shed Light on Cognitive Functions Measuring Neural Activity during Cognitive Processing Assembling Evidence and Delineating Mechanisms

Box

Structural Brain Imaging Techniques

II. Principles of Sensory Processing and Perception

4. Overview of Sensory Processing

Sensory Stimuli

Initiation of Sensory Processing

Subcortical Processing

Cortical Processing

Organization of the Sensory Cortices More Unresolved Issues in Sensory Processing

Boxes

Synesthesia

The Binding Problem

5. The Perception of Visual Stimuli

Organization of the Visual System

The Perception of Brightness

The Perception of Color

The Perception of Form

The Perception of Depth

The Perception of Motion

The Perception of Objects

Perceiving Remembered Images

Boxes

Measuring Visual or Other Sensory Percepts

The Inverse Problem

Random Dot Stereograms

6. The Perception of Auditory Stimuli