Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience
ISBN-10
1119674158
ISBN-13
9781119674153
Category
Psychology
Pages
560
Language
English
Published
2020-05-27
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Author
Bradley R. Postle

Description

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience introduces and explicates key principles and concepts in cognitive neuroscience in such a way that the reader will be equipped to critically evaluate the ever-growing body of findings that the field is generating. For some students this knowledge will be needed for subsequent formal study, and for all readers it will be needed to evaluate and interpret reports about cognitive neuroscience research that make their way daily into the news media and popular culture. New to the 2nd Edition New chapter on methodology Updated content considers the growing influence of perspectives from predictive coding, reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, and AI on cognitive neuroscience; as well as important empirical results from the past few years ranging from object and face recognition to perceptual decision making to working memory to language comprehension

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