Cognitive Neuroscience: A very Short Introduction 英文原版 牛津通识系列：认知神经科学 Richard Passingham

基本信息

By (author) Richard Passingham

Format Paperback | 152 pages

Dimensions 111 x 175 x 10mm | 121g

Publication date 01 Dec 2016

Publisher Oxford University Press

Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom

Language English

Illustrations note 24 black and white images

ISBN10 0198786220

ISBN13 9780198786221

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内容简介

Up to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable scientifically. This began to change with the devising of methods to try to tap into what was going on in the 'black box' of the mind, and the development of 'cognitive psychology'. With the study of patients who had suffered brain damage or injury to limited parts of the brain,

outlines of brain components and processes began to take shape, and by the end of the 1970s, a new science, cognitive neuroscience, was born. But it was with the development of ways of accessing activation of the working brain using imaging techniques such as PET and fMRI that cognitive neuroscience

came into its own, as a science cutting across psychology and neuroscience, with strong connections to philosophy of mind. Experiments involving subjects in scanners while doing various tasks, thinking, problem solving, and remembering are shedding light on the brain processes involved. The research is exciting and new, and often makes media headlines. But there is much misunderstanding about what brain imaging tells us, and the interpretation of studies on cognition.

In this Very Short Introduction Richard Passingham, a distinguished cognitive neuroscientist, gives a provocative and exciting account of the nature and scope of this relatively new field, and the techniques available to us, focusing on investigation of the human brain. He explains what brain imaging shows, pointing out common misconceptions, and gives a brief overview of the different aspects of human cognition: perceiving, attending, remembering, reasoning, deciding, and acting.

Passingham concludes with a discussion of the exciting advances that may lie ahead.

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直到1960年代，心理学一直深深地受到行为主义的影响，这种行为侧重于刺激和反应，并且认为对大脑中可能发生的事情的考虑在科学上是无法理解的。随着尝试利用思维“黑匣子”所发生的事情的方法的发展以及“认知心理学”的发展，这种情况开始改变。通过对遭受脑损伤或大脑有限部位损伤的患者进行研究，

大脑成分和过程的轮廓开始形成，并在1970年代末诞生了一种新的科学，即认知神经科学。但是随着使用诸如PET和fMRI等成像技术访问工作大脑的激活方式的发展，认知神经科学

它是一门独立于心理学和神经科学的科学，与心灵哲学有着密切的联系。在执行各种任务，思考，解决问题和记忆的过程中，涉及扫描仪中对象的实验使所涉及的大脑过程更加清晰。这项研究令人兴奋且新颖，经常成为媒体的头条新闻。但是，关于大脑成像告诉我们的内容以及对认知研究的解释，存在很多误解。

在这个简短的介绍中，著名的认知神经科学家Richard Passingham对这个相对较新的领域的性质和范围以及我们专注于对人脑的研究可用的技术进行了令人振奋的激动人心的说明。他解释了脑成像所显示的内容，指出了常见的误解，并简要概述了人类认知的各个方面：感知，参与，记忆，推理，决定和行动。

Passingham最后讨论了可能会出现的令人振奋的进步。

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作者简介

Richard Passingham received his BA from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of London. He returned to Oxford in 1970 and was made a University Lecturer and Fellow of Wadham College in 1976. He was amongst the first to use brain imaging to study human cognition, starting in 1988 at the MRC Cyclotron Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital where he was an Honorary Senior Lecturer. In 1996 he moved to the newly founded Wellcome Centre for

NeuroImaging at the University of London where he was an Honorary Principal. He was made Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford in 1997. His books include What is Special about the Human Brain? (OUP, 2008), The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex (OUP, 2014), with Steven P. Wise, and A Short

Guide to Brain Imaging (OUP, 2015), with James B. Rowe.

Richard Passingham拥有牛津大学的文学士学位和伦敦大学的心理学博士学位。他于1970年回到牛津，并于1976年成为瓦德姆学院的大学讲师兼院士。他是最早使用脑成像研究人类认知的人之一，从1988年开始在哈默史密斯医院的MRC回旋加速器中工作。名誉高级讲师。1996年，他移居

伦敦大学新成立的惠康神经影像中心，并在那里担任名誉校长。他于1997年被任命为牛津大学认知神经科学教授。他的著作包括《关于人脑的特别之处？（OUP，2008年），前额叶皮层神经生物学（OUP，2014年），史蒂文·P·怀斯和史密斯

James B. Rowe合着的《脑成像指南》（OUP，2015年）。

书籍目录

Background

Perceiving

Attending

Remembering

Reasoning

Deciding

Checking

Acting

The future

References

Further Reading

Index