Mental Processes in the Human Brain

NOTE EDITORE

The scientific study of the human mind and brain has come of age with the advent of technologically advanced methods for imaging brain structure and activity in health and disease, plus computational theories of cognition. These advances are leading to sophisticated new accounts for how mental processes are implemented in the human brain, but they also raise new challenges. Mental Processes in the Human Brain provides an integrative overview of the rapid advances and future challenges in understanding the neurobiological basis of mental processes that are characteristically (and in some cases, perhaps uniquely) human, including: language; thought; understanding of others; attention; planning and decision-making; emotion; memory; prediction; and awareness itself. The book also presents the latest insights into how these various processes can break down after brain injury. With chapters from some of leading figures in the brain sciences, this book will be essential for all those in the cognitive and brain sciences.

SOMMARIO

1 - From cognitive to neural models of working memory2 - The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future3 - The human amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex in behavioural regulation4 - Beyond the sentence given5 - The reign of typicality in semantic memory6 - Morphology, language and the brain: the decompositional substrate for language comprehension7 - Modulation of visual processing by attention and emotion: windows on causal interactions between human brain regions8 - Levels of processing during non-conscious perception: a critical review of visual masking9 - Neural correlates of the contents of visual awareness in humans10 - Function and localization within rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10)11 - Is there a dysexecutive syndrome?12 - Shifting and stopping: fronto-striatal substrates, neurochemical modulations and clinical implications13 - Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199230617
• Dimensioni: 243 x 22.1 x 162 mm Ø 724 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 39 line illustrations, 5 black and white photographs and 23 colour photographs
• Pagine Arabe: 308