Neuroscienze cognitive

by Dale Purves, Roberto Cabeza, Scott A. Huettel

Il campo delle neuroscienze cognitive, nato negli ultimi due decenni dalla convergenza di psicologia cognitiva e neuroscienze, attinge a elementi concettuali e tecnici di entrambe le discipline. Questa convergenza è motivata dalla possibilità di comprendere meglio le complesse funzioni cerebrali umane - una questione che ha impegnato i pensatori per secoli - sulla spinta dei nuovi e potenti metodi per lo studio del cervello umano. L'emergere delle neuroscienze cognitive come disciplina indipendente è l'espressione di ciò che molti considerano il successivo passo logico sia per la psicologia cognitiva che per le neuroscienze. Alla base di "Neuroscienze cognitive" non vi è soltanto l'intento di riassumere le conoscenze in questo campo in rapida evoluzione ma anche quello di porre le basi per futuri progressi, molti dei quali verranno realizzati dagli studenti che si avvicinano proprio ora alla disciplina. Per quanto importante possa essere mettere in luce lo stato dell'arte attuale, altrettanto lo è fornire una chiara indicazione della direzione che questo settore prenderà in futuro per raggiungere l'obiettivo, ancora lontano, di comprendere il cervello e le sue operazioni di ordine superiore.

Genres: Neuroscience, Psychology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Science

528 pages, Paperback

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.