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Three leading figures in the field of cognitive neuroscience provide an engaging, narrative driven overview of this path-breaking field. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, the authors balance cognitive theory, with neuroscientific and neuropsychological evidence to reveal what we currently know about how the human mind works and to encourage students to think like cognitive neuroscientists. The text has been reorganized to move more seamlessly from micro to macro level topics, and its underlying pedagogy strengthened in order to make it an even more effective teaching tool. Maintaining its commitment to highlight the most cutting-edge trends in the field, the third edition includes the first ever standalone chapter of its kind on social neuroscience. .

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)

Poor Service by Amazon by Dr. S. Russo

1 Stars
September 30, 2009
I have tried to buy this item via amazon a few times with no success. lack of communication and lost of money. do not attempt to proceed with international delivery with Amazon. Very poor service. Really disappointed. Dr. S. Russo

Excellent book by Scott Christensen (Hong Kong)

5 Stars
September 07, 2009
This is a very good textbook that describes the field, which I haven't seen a definition for, but basically seems to be the connection between our biology and human thought, memory, speech and so on. The book is a full introduction and requires no specialized knowledge. Neuroscience is probably the most interesting scientific field right now. Even the simplest thought processes of tiny things like worms are not yet understood but the recent giant leap in medical technology is allowing scientists to study smaller and smaller pieces of the puzzle. There are new discoveries coming out every year such as 'mirror neurons' and there will be a lot of big breakthroughs and nobel prizes here in the future. I'm especially interested in how this affects computer science, there a lot of billionaires out there plowing money into research such as at the Redwood Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and Microsoft Research.

An excellent narrative-style textbook by Egor Ananev (MS USA)

5 Stars
May 22, 2009
I would recommend this textbook to anyone who is interested in learning cognitive neuroscience. This textbook was recommended to me by a professor at Harvard, Dr. Andrea Heberlein. Since this course is not taught at my university, I decided to cover it on my own. And, by far, this is the best textbook I've ever had. Here are the reasons why: 1) Gazzaniga along with his colleagues is the legend of cognitive psychology, so I was happy to see that the research is up-to-date featuring the frontiers of cognitive neuroscience. My understanding of scientific articles on the topics I covered improved enormously. 2) The explanations are very clear and narrative-style. That means that the author includes the stories of origination of different ideas within neuroscience, competition between different researchers in a psychological debate, descriptions of where the researchers come from (the feature that I really liked and that no other textbook has), extended examples on the subjects. This is the first textbook I read like a novel. 3) Enormous amount of excellent illustrations. This is the best illustrated book that I have seen - and I have seen many. The illustrations are very clear and colorful. They include all the aspects that are needed to support the text. 4) The textbook covers most of the material that can be covered by some textbooks on biopsychology when it comes to cognitive functions. However, it advances well beyond this level. There are separate chapters on attentions, on hemisphericality, etc. However, since the book contains almost everything you need to know, you don't even have to take biopsych in advance. In fact, it describes synapse in more detail than in both of my biopsych textbooks. Besides, the explanations in the textbook are so clear that even if you did, you will enjoy revisiting the past topics from a new perspective. 5) The book provides a perfect amount of both cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology. The authors assume that you have already taken cognitive psychology course. However, they still provide just the right amount of information on it, to refresh your memory, I guess, to proceed with the relevance to the brain. 6) The cover picture of the brain makes you want to open the textbook and read. As for the price - I wish I would buy this textbook earlier not to waste my money on anything else. This is the best investment I made.

The Best I've Seen So Far by Brian S. Foley

5 Stars
May 06, 2009
This book is thorough and comprehensive. It covers the basics that one needs to know to be familiar with the field as well as more in depth matters. The writing style is informal and a pleasure to read. I would highly recommend this book to students, teachers or experts in the field. Or for people like me who are interested laypersons.

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