Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience A Beginner's Guide

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Synopsis

Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, is a comprehensive, yet accessible, beginner's guide on cognitive neuroscience. This text takes a distinctive, commonsense approach to help newcomers easily learn the basics of how the brain functions when we learn, act, feel, speak and socialize. This updated edition includes contents and features that are both academically rigorous and engaging, including a step-by-step introduction to the visible brain, colorful brain illustrations, and new chapters on emerging topics in cognition research, including emotion, sleep and disorders of consciousness, and discussions of novel findings that highlight cognitive neuroscience's practical applications.
Written by two leading experts in the field and thoroughly updated, this book remains an indispensable introduction to the study of cognition.

- Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (College) (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association
- Presents an easy-to-read introduction to mind-brain science based on a simple functional diagram linked to specific brain functions
- Provides new, up-to-date, colorful brain images directly from research labs
- Contains "In the News" boxes that describe the newest research and augment foundational content
- Includes both a student and instructor website with basic terms and definitions, chapter guides, study questions, drawing exercises, downloadable lecture slides, test bank, flashcards, sample syllabi and links to multimedia resources

Book details

Edition:
2
Author:
Nicole M. Gage, Bernard Baars
ISBN:
9780128038390
Related ISBNs:
9780124158054, 9780128038130, 9780124158658
Publisher:
Academic Press
Pages:
564
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2024-10-25
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
Elsevier Science & Technology 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Medicine, Nonfiction, Science