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Cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience involving the study of the neural mechanisms of cognition or put simply: "how the brain thinks". Cognitive neuroscience overlaps with cognitive psychology, but whereas psychologists seek to understand the mind, cognitive neuroscience is concerned with understanding how the mental processes take place in the brain. The two areas have a great deal in common since:
  • an understanding of mental structure can inform theories about brain functions
  • knowledge about neural mechanisms are useful in understanding mental structure
Methods include cognitive psychology, functional neuroimaging, neuropsychology and behavioral neuroscience. Cogntive neuroscience also makes contact with low-level data from electrophysiological studies of neural systems and, increasingly, genetic analyses. The main theoretical approach is computational neuroscience, but more "abstract" information processing approaches derived from cognitive psychology and neuropsychology remain influential. Cognitive neuroscience is sometimes seen as part of a wider interdisciplinary study of cognition: cognitive science.

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Tree of Knowledge by Humberto R. Maturana

Colorful Introduction to the Anatomy of the Human Brain, A: A Brain and Psychology Coloring Book by John P.J. Pinel

A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond by William H. Calvin

How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience by Mark R. Rosenzweig

Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy by Patricia Smith Churchland

Cognitive Neuroscience, Second Edition by Michael S. Gazzaniga

A Celebration of Neurons: An Educator's Guide to the Human Brain by Robert Sylwester

Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness by Bernard J. Baars

The Mind within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking, and Acting by Manfred Spitzer

Exploring Consciousness by Rita Carter

Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See by Donald D. Hoffman

Left Brain, Right Brain: Perspective from Cognitive Neuroscience (Series of Books in Psychology) by Sally P. Springer

Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain : The Science of Neuroeconomics by Paul W. Glimcher

Introducing Consciousness by David Papineau


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