Cortex and Mind : Unifying Cognition

Name: Cortex and Mind
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195300840
Price: 12700 KES
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ISBN: 9780195300840

by Joaquin M. Fuster

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 019530084X

ISBN-13 9780195300840

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 29th, 2005

Print length 314 Pages

Weight 462 grams

Dimensions 15.80 x 23.50 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology Physiological psychology, neuropsychology, biopsychology Cognition & cognitive psychology Cognition and cognitive psychology Neurosciences

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Presenting a synthesis of cognitive neuroscience, this work is structured over theoretical and empirical base. Five major cognitive functions, perception, memory, attention, language, and intelligence, are analysed from the perspectives of neurobiology and cognitive science.

This book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the world''s authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the entirety of our knowledge is encoded by relations, and thus by connections, in neuronal networks of our cerebral cortex. Cognitive networks develop by experience on a base of widely dispersed modular cell assemblies representing elementary sensations and movements. As they develop cognitive networks organize themselves hierarchically by order of complexity or abstraction of their content. Because networks intersect profusely, sharing commong nodes, a neuronal assembly anywhere in the cortex can be part of many networks, and therefore many items of knowledge. All cognitive functions consist of neural transactions w

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