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Abstract
Taking an integrated approach to cognitive neuroscience, this is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers. Offering original insight through its unique structure, it explains why we need to understand the brain in order to understand psychology.
"This book is very well written. It gives a nice overview of cognitive neuroscience, and has a novel approach in linking areas that are usually covered in isolation." – Dr Leun Otten, University College London, UK
"The book takes a very interesting approach and I particularly like the way each chapter combines two elements – e.g. attention and memory, or perception and action. This makes it a very useful tool in encouraging students to see the clear links between topics." – Dr Alexander Easton, Durham University, UK
Leon Kenemans is Professor of Biopsychology and Psychopharmacology at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His research interests include attention and affective processes, and action control, and he has published in the areas of working memory and the effects of alcohol on the ability to detect and respond to unexpected events.
Nick Ramsey is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University Medical Hospital of Utrecht, and Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He conducts research on mechanisms of human brain function, advanced techniques for imaging brain function, and on plasticity in brain function in people with brain disorders such as tumors and epilepsy, amongst other areas.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half-Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| List of Figures | viii | ||
| List of Plates | xiv | ||
| Preface | xv | ||
| Acknowledgements | xvii | ||
| List of Abbreviations | xx | ||
| 1 PRINCIPLES AND METHODS | 1 | ||
| 1.0 Introduction | 1 | ||
| 1.1 Imaging methods | 3 | ||
| 1.2 Electrophysiological imaging techniques | 4 | ||
| 1.3 Blood-dynamics imaging techniques | 11 | ||
| 1.4 Animals, lesions and virtual lesions | 18 | ||
| 1.5 Standards in topography and coordinates | 20 | ||
| 1.6 Concluding remarks | 21 | ||
| 2 PERCEPTION AND ACTION | 22 | ||
| 2.0 Introduction | 22 | ||
| 2.1 From perception to action in the human brain | 24 | ||
| 2.2 Visuomotor and mirror neurons | 30 | ||
| 2.3 Looping back: efference copy | 35 | ||
| 2.4 Looping back: action-guided perception | 38 | ||
| 2.5 Concluding remarks | 43 | ||
| 3 PERCEPTION AND ATTENTION | 44 | ||
| 3.0 Introduction | 44 | ||
| 3.1 To see or not to see: attention modulates perception | 46 | ||
| 3.2 How early is the attentional modulation of brain activation patterns? | 53 | ||
| 3.3 Setting the gains: top–down signals creating a bias in perceptual cortex | 61 | ||
| 3.4 Breaking the circuit: a dedicated ventral system for processing unexpected events | 70 | ||
| 3.5 Conclusion | 75 | ||
| 4 ATTENTION AND ACTION | 77 | ||
| 4.0 Introduction | 77 | ||
| 4.1 Intentional modulation and control: the role of neurons in parietal and frontal cortices | 79 | ||
| 4.2 Breaking the motor circuit | 83 | ||
| 4.3 Action monitoring: the role of the anterior cingulate cortex | 87 | ||
| 4.4 Inhibiting actions | 96 | ||
| 4.5 Concluding remarks | 105 | ||
| 5 PERCEPTION AND MEMORY | 106 | ||
| 5.0 Introduction | 106 | ||
| 5.1 Short-term perceptual plasticity | 110 | ||
| 5.2 First- or second-order memory and circuit breaking | 116 | ||
| 5.3 Short-term perceptual memory and working memory | 122 | ||
| 5.4 Retrieval from the perceptual cortex | 124 | ||
| 5.5 Long-term plasticity in perception | 128 | ||
| 5.6 Concluding remarks | 132 | ||
| 6 ATTENTION AND MEMORY | 133 | ||
| 6.0 Introduction | 133 | ||
| 6.1 Spatial attention and working memory converge on a fronto-parietal network | 135 | ||
| 6.2 Working memory drives attention, but how much? | 142 | ||
| 6.3 Attention and working memory modulate long-term episodic memory | 148 | ||
| 6.4 Concluding remarks | 155 | ||
| 7 ACTION AND MEMORY | 157 | ||
| 7.0 Introduction | 157 | ||
| 7.1 Short-term motor plasticity in motor and other parts of the cortex | 159 | ||
| 7.2 Conditional motor processes: the role of the cerebellum | 162 | ||
| 7.3 Instrumental conditioning and procedural learning | 166 | ||
| 7.4 Brain circuits for procedural learning: loops for the basal ganglia | 169 | ||
| 7.5 Sequence learning and dopamine | 173 | ||
| 7.6 Retrieval in the motor cortex | 174 | ||
| 7.7 Concluding remarks | 177 | ||
| 8 PERCEPTION, ATTENTION AND EMOTION | 178 | ||
| 8.0 Introduction: emotion as a sympathetic response | 178 | ||
| 8.1 Affective content modulates sensory cortical processing | 181 | ||
| 8.2 Subcortical structures in the control of attention | 185 | ||
| 8.3 Attention drives emotion | 189 | ||
| 8.4 The struggle between the dorsal and the ventral | 193 | ||
| 8.5 Igniting the cortex | 195 | ||
| 8.6 Concluding remarks | 198 | ||
| 9 EMOTION AND ACTION | 199 | ||
| 9.0 Introduction | 199 | ||
| 9.1 The muscular expression of emotion | 202 | ||
| 9.2 Emotion potentiates refl exes | 205 | ||
| 9.3 The struggle between left and right | 208 | ||
| 9.4 Compulsions: orbitofrontal cortex, basal ganglia and serotonin | 213 | ||
| 9.5 Liking versus wanting: from ventral to dorsal striatum | 215 | ||
| 9.6 Concluding remarks | 217 | ||
| 10 EMOTION AND MEMORY | 219 | ||
| 10.0 Introduction | 219 | ||
| 10.1 Long-term episodic memory is modulated by affective content through signals in the brain | 220 | ||
| 10.2 Emotion and implicit memory | 226 | ||
| 10.3 Emotional learning and rational decision making | 232 | ||
| 10.4 Reconsolidating and deconsolidating the emotion | 235 | ||
| 10.5 Explicit retrieval | 237 | ||
| 10.6 Concluding remarks | 242 | ||
| 11 SOCIAL COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION | 244 | ||
| 11.0 Introduction | 244 | ||
| 11.1 Watching others: muscles, motor system, and confl ict detection | 245 | ||
| 11.2 Trusting others: a hormone for trust and reduced betrayal aversion? | 248 | ||
| 11.3 Loathing others: the insula and the social neural network | 250 | ||
| 11.4 Working with others: social oscillations | 252 | ||
| 11.5 Understanding others: language processing in the brain | 256 | ||
| 11.6 Talking to others: language and memory in the brain | 257 | ||
| 11.7 Concluding remarks | 261 | ||
| References | 263 | ||
| Index | 287 |