Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology Of The Mind (Third Edition) Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Three leading figures in the field of cognitive neuroscience provide an engaging, narrative driven overview of this path-breaking field. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, the authors balance cognitive theory, with neuroscientific and neuropsychological evidence to reveal what we currently know about how the human mind works and to encourage students to think like cognitive neuroscientists. The text has been reorganized to move more seamlessly from micro to macro level topics, and its underlying pedagogy strengthened in order to make it an even more effective teaching tool. Maintaining its commitment to highlight the most cutting-edge trends in the field, the third edition includes the first ever standalone chapter of its kind on social neuroscience.
Hardcover: 752 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 3 edition (July 23, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393927954
ISBN-13: 978-0393927955
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 1.3 x 11.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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I would recommend this textbook to anyone who is interested in learning cognitive neuroscience. This textbook was recommended to me by a professor. Since this course is not taught at my university, I decided to cover it on my own. And, by far, this is the best textbook I've had on the subject. Reasons:1) Gazzaniga along with his colleagues is very well-known in cognitive psychology, and is actively pursuing further research in the field, so I was happy to see that the research is up-to-date featuring the frontiers of cognitive neuroscience.2) The explanations are very clear and narrative-style. That means that the author includes the stories of origin of different ideas within neuroscience, competition between different researchers in a psychological debate, descriptions of where the researchers come from (the feature that I really liked and that no other textbook has), extended examples on the subjects. This is the first textbook I read like a novel.3) Enormous amount of illustrations, which are also very clear. They include all aspects that are needed to support the text.4) The textbook covers most of the material that can be covered by some textbooks on biopsychology when it comes to cognitive functions. However, it advances well beyond this level. There are separate chapters on attentions, on hemisphericality, etc. However, since the book contains almost everything you need to know, you don't even have to take biopsych in advance. In fact, it describes synapses in more detail than in both of my biopsych textbooks.5) The book provides a perfect amount of both cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology. The authors assume that you have already taken cognitive psychology course. However, due to the nature of the topic, it is pretty much impossible to discuss neuroscience without the underlying behavior. Other books strive to achieve the balance between the two, while this textbook has just the right amount of both.6) The cover picture of the brain makes you want to open the textbook and read.As for the price - I wish I would buy this textbook earlier not to waste my money on anything else. This is definitely a worthy investment.
This book is thorough and comprehensive. It covers the basics that one needs to know to be familiar with the field as well as more in depth matters. The writing style is informal and a pleasure to read. I would highly recommend this book to students, teachers or experts in the field. Or for people like me who are interested laypersons.
I bought this book for one of my BCS (brain and cognitive science)course. Although I kind of "have to" read this heavy book, the book itself is very well written and quite enjoyable to read.Each chapters started with real patient cases and then gradually dive deep into the mechanisms. The narrative style makes reading this book more like reading a novel than dry text books. The author provided TONs of illustrated images to explain the experiments. And the explanations can be found right underneath each experimental illustrations(very helpful to understand the experiment procedures and key factors).There are also questions for thought and chapter summaries for quick references/reviews at the end of each chapter. It's a great book even if you do not have much knowledge in biopsych or cognitive science. The topics include almost all materials you would encounter in introductory courses (I found many repeating materials with my 2 introductory cognitive science courses). The author did a good job in refreshing your memory of many terms (we often forgot what we learnt from class last year :P).It would be hard though if you came to read this book as a Cognitive Science newbie. Yet you should feel no fear to try a few chapters interested you since you can always find explanations to terms on Google.Overall, I'm glad my professor assigned this book for this course. The author explains every point better and more clear than my professor does.The price is indeed ... high. You can always get a digitalized version or used book though. Don't let the price prevent you from an excellent book in cognitive science!
This is a very good textbook that describes the field, which I haven't seen a definition for, but basically seems to be the connection between our biology and human thought, memory, speech and so on. The book is a full introduction and requires no specialized knowledge.Neuroscience is probably the most interesting scientific field right now. Even the simplest thought processes of tiny things like worms are not yet understood but the recent giant leap in medical technology is allowing scientists to study smaller and smaller pieces of the puzzle. There are new discoveries coming out every year such as 'mirror neurons' and there will be a lot of big breakthroughs and nobel prizes here in the future. I'm especially interested in how this affects computer science, there a lot of billionaires out there plowing money into research such as at the Redwood Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and Microsoft Research.
Excellent book for those looking for an introduction to neuroscience or more information on specific topics within the discipline. This book has three strong pluses:1. It is thematically organized and comprehensive. The first part looks at the background, the second looks at core processes, and the third control processes. The first section traces the history and evolution of the discipline and also reviews the central nervous system, cells within the CNS, and brain structure. The second and third parts delve into specifics. If you have a background in linguistics or psychology, the chapters on language and emotion, respectively, will complement your understanding of these disciplines. In particular, I enjoyed the chapter on evolutionary perspectives.2. The illustrations are well done. Based on text alone, it can be difficult to visualize neurons, neuronal signaling, different parts of the brain, etc. The illustrations make understanding easier.3. The authors write well.
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