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Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience,

Edition 2 A Beginner's Guide

By Nicole M. Gage and Bernard Baars

Publication Date: 03 Apr 2018

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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.

Key Features

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

About the author

By Nicole M. Gage, Associate Researcher, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA and Bernard Baars, Affiliated Fellow, Theoretical Neurobiology, The Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

Book details

ISBN: 9780128038130

Page Count: 564

Retail Price : £53.99

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Audience

Advanced undergraduate/lower-level graduate students in neuroscience, psychology, and related disciplines in which cognitive neuroscience is taught

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Rachael Martin

This is a great textbook with some very useful resources.

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Thousends of thanks

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Esta obra es un elemento esencial para la enseñanza de la Neurociencia en los Grados de Medicina y Psicología por su visión y enfoque actualizado, lo que la hace imprescindible para la formación de futuros profesionales tanto clínicos como investigadores básicos.

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Sehr gutes Buch über Neurowissenschaften.

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