ESSENTIALS OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Preface xvi Acknowledgments xix Methodology Boxes xxi Walkthrough of Pedagogical Features xxii Companion Website xxiv SECTION I: THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF THINKING 1 1 Introduction and History 4 2 The Brain 22 SECTION II: SENSATION, PERCEPTION, ATTENTION, AND ACTION 51 3 Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals 54 4 Audition and Somatosensation 85 5 The Visual System 120 6 Spatial Cognition and Attention 153 7 Skeletomotor Control 196 8 Oculomotor Control and the Control of Attention 229 SECTION III: MENTAL REPRESENTATION 259 9 Visual Object Recognition and Knowledge 262 10 Neural Bases of Memory 286 11 Declarative Long?]Term Memory 312 12 Semantic Long?]Term Memory 336 13 Short?]Term and Working Memory 360 SECTION IV: HIGH-LEVEL COGNITION 395 14 Cognitive Control 397 15 Decision Making 422 16 Social Behavior 449 17 Emotion 476 18 Language 502 19 Consciousness 531 Glossary 562 Index 571