Cognitive
Neuroscience
SECOND EDITION
Dale Purves
Roberto Cabeza
Scott A. Huettel
Kevin S. LaBar
Michael L. Platt
Marty G. Woldorff
Contributor
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Duke University
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Contents in Brief
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
17
CHAPTER 3
55
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
Declarative
M
emory
131
167
205
243
279
CHAPTER 10
Emotion
319
CHAPTER 11
Social
CHAPTER 12
Language
CHAPTER 13
Executive unctions
F
CHAPTER 14
Decision
CHAPTER 15
Co
gnition
359
393
M
aking
429
465
503
539
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Contents
Cognitive Neuroscience:
Definitions, Themes, and Approaches 1
Introduction
Cognition
Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience:
The Neurobiological Approach to Cognition
10
14
Introduction
17
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Sensory Systems
and Perception: Vision 55
Introduction
Visual Stimuli
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56
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Topography 64
Cortical magnification 66
Cortical modularity 66
Visual receptive fields 67
Visual Perception
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Introduction
93
93
Sound stimuli 93
The peripheral auditory system 96
The auditory cortices 100
The perception of sound 100
Perceiving the location of sound sources
110
107
110
119
124
124
Motor Systems:
The Organization of Action 1317
Introduction
131
132
133
137
144
148
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Introduction
167
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Introduction 205
Clinical Evidence for Brain Regions Involved in Attentional
Control 206
Control of Voluntary Attention
210
218
Visual Search
219
220
223
228
231
237
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Memory:
Varieties and Mechanisms 243
Introduction 243
Memory Phases, Processes, Systems, and Tasks 245
Dissociating Memory Systems 248
Working memory versus declarative memory 248
Declarative versus nondeclarative memory 249
Conditioning 266
Cellular Mechanisms of Memory 270
Habituation and sensitization 272
Long-term potentiation and depression 273
Linking LTP to memory performance 274
Learning-related changes in synaptic morphology
275
Declarative Memory
Introduction
279
279
283
285
290
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Memory Consolidation
312
313
10
Emotion 319
Introduction
319
What Is Emotion?
321
322
325
325
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Regulation of Emotion
354
11
Introduction
The Self
359
361
Self-reflection 363
Embodiment 365
Social Categorization
367
372
374
380
Social Competition
388
390
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Language 393
Introduction
Speech
393
393
400
Theories of Language
403
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420
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424
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Introduction
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452
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14
Introduction
465
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Social Context
483
495
497
15
Introduction 503
Early Thinking about the Evolution and Development of
Cognition 505
Early Brain Development
508
511
520
522
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APPENDIX
The Human Nervous System
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549
561
Glossary
565
Illustration Credits
Index
583
591
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