Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience

Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience

Author: Nicole M. Gage

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2018-03-14

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 012803839X

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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


The Inferior Colliculus

The Inferior Colliculus

Author: Jeffery A. Winer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-05

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 0387270833

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Connecting the auditory brain stem to sensory, motor, and limbic systems, the inferior colliculus is a critical midbrain station for auditory processing. Winer and Schreiner's The Inferior Colliculus, a critical, comprehensive reference, presents the current knowledge of the inferior colliculus from a variety of perspectives, including anatomical, physiological, developmental, neurochemical, biophysical, neuroethological and clinical vantage points. Written by leading researchers in the field, the book is an ideal introduction to the inferior colliculus and central auditory processing for clinicians, otolaryngologists, graduate and postgraduate research workers in the auditory and other sensory-motor systems.


The Auditory Cortex

The Auditory Cortex

Author: Jeffery A. Winer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-12-02

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 1441900748

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There has been substantial progress in understanding the contributions of the auditory forebrain to hearing, sound localization, communication, emotive behavior, and cognition. The Auditory Cortex covers the latest knowledge about the auditory forebrain, including the auditory cortex as well as the medial geniculate body in the thalamus. This book will cover all important aspects of the auditory forebrain organization and function, integrating the auditory thalamus and cortex into a smooth, coherent whole. Volume One covers basic auditory neuroscience. It complements The Auditory Cortex, Volume 2: Integrative Neuroscience, which takes a more applied/clinical perspective.


The Auditory System in Sleep

The Auditory System in Sleep

Author: Ricardo Velluti

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2010-07-28

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0080556213

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The Auditory System in Sleep presents for the first time a view of a sensory system working in a different state-that of the sleeping brain. The auditory system is always "open receiving information from the environment and the body itself (conscious and unconscious data). Even during sleep the auditory information is processed, although in a different way. This book draws information from evoked potentials, fMRI, PET, SPECT, lesions, etc., together with electrophysiological online data in order to depict how the auditory system single unit activity, recorded during sleep, revealed the possibility of sensory information participation in sleep processes. - Presents diverse experimental viewpoints from the beginning of classical electroencephalography to the more recent imaging, single units, electro-magneto-encephalography studies, etc. - Includes classic data as well as new data based in the existing literature and on the long scientific research lines (auditory and sleep) developed by the author and coworkers on this subject since 1963


Pain Modulation

Pain Modulation

Author: Howard L. Fields

Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9780444809841

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This volume represents edited material that was presented at a conference on brainstem modulation of spinal nociception held in Beaune, France during July, 1987. Pain Modulation, Volume 77 in the series Progress in Brain Research reviews, analyses and suggests new research strategies on several relevant topics including: the endogenous opioid peptides; sites of action of opiates; the role of biogenic animes and non-opioid peptides in analgesia; dorsal horn circuitry; behavioural factors in the activation of pain modulating networks and clinical studies of nociceptive modulation.


The Central Auditory System

The Central Auditory System

Author: Günter Ehret

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780195096842

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This is a graduate-level text on the neurobiology of hearing, covering the structure and function of the central auditory pathway of all mammals.


The Cochlea

The Cochlea

Author: Peter Dallos

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1461207576

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Knowledge about the structure and function of the inner ear is vital to an understanding of vertebrate hearing. This volume presents a detailed overview of the mammalian cochlea from its anatomy and physiology to its biophysics and biochemistry. The nine review chapters, written by internationally distinguished auditory researchers, provide a detailed and unified introduction to sound processing in the cochlea and the steps by which the ensuing signals are prepared for the central nervous system.


Development of the Auditory System

Development of the Auditory System

Author: Edwin W. Rubel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781461274506

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The contributors to this volume have provided a detailed and integrated introduction to the behavioural, anatomical, and physiological changes that occur in the auditory system of developing animals. Edwin W Rubel is Virginia Merrill Bloedel Professor of Hearing Sciences at the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center at the University of Washington, Arthur N. Popper is Professor and Chair of the Department of Zoology at the University of Maryland, while Richard R. Fay is Associate Director of the Parmly Hearing Institute and Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago. Each volume in this series is independent and authoritative; taken as a set, the series will be the definitive resource in the field.


Auditory Neuroscience

Auditory Neuroscience

Author: Jan Schnupp

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2012-08-17

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0262518023

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An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical, biological, and psychological processes underlying it. Every time we listen—to speech, to music, to footsteps approaching or retreating—our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself, in the air, in our ears, and, most of all, in our brains. Hearing is an "everyday miracle" that, despite its staggering complexity, seems effortless. This book offers an integrated account of hearing in terms of the neural processes that take place in different parts of the auditory system. Because hearing results from the interplay of so many physical, biological, and psychological processes, the book pulls together the different aspects of hearing—including acoustics, the mathematics of signal processing, the physiology of the ear and central auditory pathways, psychoacoustics, speech, and music—into a coherent whole.