Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience

  • Michael S. Gazzaniga
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Cognitive Sciences
      George A. Miller, Michael S. Gazzaniga
      Pages 3-11

  3. Cognitive Evolution and Cognitive Development

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. Pedagogy and Aesthetics as Sources of Culture
      David Premack
      Pages 15-35
    3. Cognitive Development
      Susan Carey
      Pages 37-66

  4. From Perception to Cognition

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 67-67
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    2. Perceptual Development and Physiology
      M. A. Berkley
      Pages 69-89
    3. Music, Pitch Perception, and the Mechanisms of Cortical Hearing
      John J. Sidtis
      Pages 91-114
    4. The Integration of Motor Control and Visual Perception
      Jeffrey D. Holtzman, H. A. Sedgwick
      Pages 115-133
    5. Computations and Mechanisms in the Early Processing of Visual Information
      Shimon Ullman
      Pages 135-150

  5. The Centrality of Language in Cognition

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 151-151
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    2. Why Study Human Language?
      Samuel Jay Keyser
      Pages 153-168
    3. On Finding That Speech Is Special
      Alvin M. Liberman
      Pages 169-197
    4. What Does Language Do for a Right Hemisphere?
      Michael S. Gazzaniga, Charlotte S. Smylie
      Pages 199-209
    5. Neurolinguistics
      Edgar Zurif
      Pages 211-226

  6. The Role of Representational Systems in Cognition

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 227-227
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    2. Inadequacies of the Computer Metaphor
      Claudia Carello, M. T. Turvey, Peter N. Kugler, Robert E. Shaw
      Pages 229-248
    3. Deductive Thinking
      Philip N. Johnson-Laird
      Pages 249-274
    4. Formal Learning Theory
      Daniel N. Osherson, Scott Weinstein
      Pages 275-292

About this book

Keywords

Cognitive Neuroscience neuroscience

Editors and affiliations

  • Michael S. Gazzaniga
    • 1
  1. 1.Cornell University Medical CollegeNew YorkUSA

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