Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience by Dale Purves

by Dale Purves

This book, written by seven leaders in the field, is intended to inform readers at all levels about the growing canon of cognitive neuroscience, and to make clear the many challenges that remain to be solved by the next generation. Chapters begin with a brief introduction and end with a summary; in addition to the narrative text, richly illustrated in full color, each chapter includes boxed material on topics of special interest. Extensive references to useful reviews, important original papers, and books are provided. In addition to an appendix that covers the essentials of neural signaling and an extensive glossary of key terms, each copy comes with Sylvius 4, which includes an interactive tutorial on human neuroanatomy and a digital atlas of human brain structure.

Genres: Neuroscience, Psychology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Science

Hardcover

First published November 5, 2007

About the author

Dale Purves (born March 11, 1938) is Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences where he remains Research Professor with additional appointments in the department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, and the department of Philosophy at Duke University. He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1960 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1964.

Reviews

[Mathias · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is about neuroscience and takes 5 months to riffle through
I would recommend it to People eager to understand the Bräin, themselves and the inner workings of the soul

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

super obrazki małp

[Chrissy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I looooooved this textbook. So much that I actually kept it, an honour that I gave to only one other textbook from my undergraduate years. It's incredibly well-written, detailed without being tedious or over-wordy, and makes great use of images. I absolutely recommend this text to any student of psychology with an interest in the brain but little experience in biology.

[Maxine Van beek · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was mostly for education purposes only. I learned a lot and it fed my curiosity sufficiently.

[Britt O'Duffy · Rating 3 out of 5]

As someone who hasn't taken a biology course since Freshman undergrad (I'm a humanities kid), this textbook kept me afloat this summer semester. While I didn't enjoy the textbook (hence the 3.25 stars), I enjoyed building an anatomical lexicon to describe neural activity. #WordNerd

I'll be curious to monitor this field as measurement tools improve. Will future neuroscientists be able to apprehend decision making based off of anatomical architecture and synapse patterns? Will advertisements become all the smarter to fully manipulate subconscious processes and re-route brain architecture? Will we discover a cortical core of consciousness that challenges our notions of human existence? IWho knows?!

[Paul Pawlik · Rating 2 out of 5]

For a textbook, this is far too dense. While packed with information, the overarching concepts are poorly introduced.