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| Title: | Cognitive Science Compendium
: Volume 1 |
| Author: | Miao-Kun Sun (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1604565977 : 9781604565973 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 333 |
| Weight: | .906 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - October 2008 |
| List Price: | 79.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Cognitivism, cognitive theory |
Cognitive science is most simply defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence. It is an interdisciplinary study drawing from relevant fields including psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, computer science, and biology. This book presents the latest important research in the field.
Preface: Learning Cognitive Sciences; Cognitive Disruption in Angelman Syndrome: From Mouse Models to Molecular Mechanisms; Role of Genetic and Nongenetic Vascular Risk Factors in Sproadic Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease; ERP Studies of Recognition Memory: Differential Effects of Familiarity, Recollection and Episodic Priming; Infantile Amnesia: A Cross-Cultural Investigation; The NDRG Gene Family and Human Nervous System Disorders; Neurobehavioral Characteristics of Presenilin Transgenic Mice; Synaptic Plasticity in Addition; Cortical Plasticity for Language Processing in the Human Brain; Memory Reconsolidation: A Molecular Perspective; Neuroprotective Effects of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I against Neurotoxic Amyloid; How and Where Does AB Exert its Toxic Effects in Alzheimer's Disease?; Brain Function in Altered States of Consciousness: Comparison Between Alzheimer Dementia and Vegetative State; Categorization of Species-Specific Vocalizations in the Non-Human Primate: Features Guiding Behavioral Discrimination and Neural Processing in the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex; Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mediated Apoptotic Pathway in AB Toxicity; The P300 Component of the Event-Related Brain Potential and Bayes' Theorem; Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Pavlovian Conditioning; Index.
