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November 2004
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The Cognitive Neurosciences III
Third Edition
Edited by Michael S. Gazzaniga

Prefacexiii
I.EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT1
Introduction
Pasko Rakic
3
1.What Is It Like to Be a Human?
Todd M. Preuss
5
2.Adult Neurogenesis in the Primate Forebrain
David R. Kornack
23
3.Setting the Stage for Cognition: Genesis of the Primate Cerebral Cortex
Pasko Rakic, Eugenius S.B.C Ang and Joshua Breunig
33
4.Neuronal Migration in the Brain
Guofa Liu and Yi Rao
51
5.Patterning of the Cerebral Cortex
Sonia Garel and John L.R. Rubenstein
69
6.A New Perspective on the Role of Activity in the Development of Eye-Specific Retinogeniculate Projections
Leo M. Chalupa and Andrew D. Huberman
85
7.Brain and Behavioral Development During Childhood
Jerome Kagan and Abigail A. Baird
93
II.PLASTICITY105
Introduction
Ira B. Black
107
8.Long-Term Plasticity of Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission in the Cerebral Cortex
Robert A. Crozier, Benjamin D. Philpot, Nathaniel B. Sawtell and Mark F. Bear
109
9.Neurogenesis in the Adult Mammalian Brain
Henriette van Praag, Xinyu Zhao and Fred H. Gage
127
10.Stress, Deprivation, and Adult Neurogenesis
Elizabeth Gould
139
11.Quantitative Analysis of Fetal and Adult Neurogenesis: Regulation of Neuron Number
Richard S. Nowakowski and Nancy L. Hayes
149
12.Stem Cell Plasticity: Overview and Perspective
Dale Woodbury and Ira B. Black
161
13.How Sex and Stress Hormones Regulate the Structural and Functional Plasticity of the Hippocampus
Bruce S. McEwen
171
III.SENSORY SYSTEMS183
Introduction
J. Anthony Movshon and Brian A. Wandell
185
14.The Implications of Metabolic Energy Requirements for the Representation of Information in Neurons
Simon B. Laughlin
187
15.Somatosensory Discrimination: Neural Coding and Decision-Making Mechanisms
Ranulfo Romo, Victor De Lafuente and Adrian Hernandez
197
16.Auditory Cortex in Primates: Functional Subdivisions and Processing Streams
Troy A. Hackett and Jon H. Kaas
215
17.A New Foundation for the Visual Cortical Hierarchy
Jonathan C. Horton and Lawrence C. Sincich
233
18.Birdsong: Hearing in the Service of Vocal Learning
Allison J. Doupe, Michele M. Solis, Charlotte A. Boettiger and Neal A. Hessler
245
19.Olfaction: From Sniff to Percept
Moustafa Bansafi, Christina Zelano, Brad Johnson, Joel Mainland, Rehan Khan and Noam Sobel
259
20.Origins of Perception: Retinal Ganglion Cell Diversity and the Creation of Parallel Visual Pathways
Dennis Dacey
281
21Mechanisms of Image Processing in the Visual Cortex
C. Elizabeth Boudreau and David Ferster
303
22.Receptive Fields and Suppressive Fields in the Early Visual System
Matteo Carandini
313
23.Characterization of Neural Responses with Stochastic Stimuli
Eero P. Simoncelli, Liam Paninski, Jonathan W. Pillow and Odelia Schwartz
327
24.Neuronal Correlates of Visual Attention and Perception
David J. Heeger and David Ress
339
25.Dynamics of Attentional Modulation in Visual Cerebral Cortex
John H.R. Maunsell and Geoffrey M. Ghose
351
26.Acoustic Stimulus Processing and Multimodal Interactions in Primates
Gregg H. Recanzone
359
27.Motion Perception and Midlevel Vision
Josh McDermott and Edward H. Adelson
369
28.Determining an Auditory Scene
Willaim A. Yost
385
29.Short-Term Memory for the Rapid Deployment of Visual Attention
Ken Nakayama, Vera Maljkovic and Árni Kristjánsson
397
IV.MOTOR SYSTEMS409
Introduction
Emilio Bizzi and Scott T. Grafton
411
30.Toward a Neurobiology of Coordinate Transformations
Emilio Bizzi and Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi
413
31.Cortical Mechanisms Subserving Object Grasping, Action Understanding, and Imitation
Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese
427
32.The Representation of Action
Scott T. Grafton and Richard B. Ivry
441
33.Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar Circuits with the Cerebral Cortex
Peter L. Strick
453
34.Sensorimotor Transformations in the Posterior Parietal Cortex
Richard Andersen, Daniella Meeker, Bijan Pesaran, Boris Breznen, Christopher Buneo and Hans Scherberger
463
35.Brain Mechanisms of Praxis
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos
475
36.Computational Motor Control
Daniel M. Wolpert and Zoubin Ghahramani
485
37The Basal Ganglia and the Control of Action
Ann M. Graybiel and Esen Saka
495
38Motor Learning and Memory for Reaching and Pointing
Reza Shadmehr and Steven P. Wise
511
V.ATTENTION525
Introduction
Anne Treisman
527
39.Psychological Issues in Selective Attention
Anne Treisman
529
40.Orienting and the Inhibition of Return
Raymond Klein
545
41.Selective Attention: Electrophysiological and Neuromagnetic Studies
Joseph B. Hopfinger, Steven J. Luck and Steven A. Hillyard
561
42.Visual Selective Attention: Insights from Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology
Winrich A. Freiwald and Nancy Kanwisher
575
43.Spatial Neglect and Extinction
Jon Driver, Patrik Vuilleumier and Masud Husain
589
44.Attention and the Frontal Lobes
Glyn W. Humphreys and Dana Samson
607
45.Attention and Action
Steven P. Tipper
619
46.Vigilant Attention
Ian H. Robertson and Hugh Garavan
631
VI.MEMORY641
Introduction
Daniel L. Schacter
643
47.Synaptic Growth and the Persistence of Long-Term Memory: A Molecular Perspective
Craig H. Bailey and Eric R. Kandel
647
48.Domain Specificity in Cognitive Systems
Lila Davachi, Lizabeth M. Romanski, Matthew V. Chafee and Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic
665
49.An Information Processing Framework for Memory Representation by the Hippocampus
Howard Eichenbaum
679
50.Medial Temporal Lobe Function and Memory
Larry R. Squire, Robert E. Clark and Peter J. Bayley
691
51.Cognitive Control, Semantic Memory, and Priming: Contributions from Prefrontal Cortex
Anthony D. Wagner, Silvia A. Bunge and David Badre
709
52.Retrieval Processes in Human Memory: Electrophysiological and fMRI Evidence
Michael D. Rugg
727
53.Neural Correlates of Memory's Successes and Sins
Randy L. Buckner and Daniel L. Schacter
739
VII.LANGUAGE753
Introduction
Alfonso Caramazza
755
54.Prelexical and Lexical Processing in Listening
Peter Indefrey and Anne Cutler
759
55.Cognitive and Neural Substrates of Written Language: Comprehension and Production
Argye E. Hillis and Brenda C. Rapp
775
56.The Neural Basis of Syntactic Processes
Angela D. Friederici
789
57.The Organization of Lexical Knowledge in the Brain: The Grammatical Dimension
Kevin Shapiro and Alfonso Caramazza
803
58.The Neural Basis of Reading Acquisition
Franck Ramus
815
59Biological Foundations of Language Acquisition: Evidence from Bilingualism
Jacques Mehler, Núria Sebastián-Gallés and Stefano Nespor
825
60.The Evolution of Language
W. Tecumseh Fitch
837
VIII.HIGHER COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS847
Introduction
Nikos K. Logothetis
849
61.Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Human Knowledge: A Case Study of Mathematics
Marc D. Hauser and Elizabeth Spelke
853
62.From Number Neurons to Mental Arithmetic: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Number Sense
Manuela Piazza and Stanislas Dehaene
865
63.Object Categorization, Expertise, and Neural Plasticity
James W. Tanaka
877
64.Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Face and Object Representations in the Human Brain
James V. Haxby, M. Ida Gobbini and K. Montgomery
889
65.Associative Memory: Representation, Activation, and Cognitive Control
Ryoko Fujimichi, Yuji Naya and Yasushi Miyashita
905
66.Top-Down Mechanisms for Working Memory and Attentional Processes
Luiz Pessoa and Leslie G. Ungerleider
919
67.The Brain's Mind's Images: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mental Imagery
Giorgio Ganis, William L. Thompson, Fred Mast and Stephen M. Kosslyn
931
68.The Fractionation of Supervisory Control
Tim Shallice
943
69.Functional MRI in Monkeys: A Bridge Between Human and Animal Brain Research
Nikos K. Logothetis
957
IX.EMOTION AND SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE971
Introduction
Todd F. Heatherton, Elizabeth A. Phelps and Joseph E. LeDoux
973
70Social Neuroscience
John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson
977
71.The Neural Basis of Fear
Glen E. Schafe and Joseph E. LeDoux
987
72.The Human Amygdala and Awareness: Interactions Between Emotion and Cognition
Elizabeth A. Phelps
1005
73.Processing of Emotional and Social Information by the Human Amygdala
Ralph Adolphs
1017
74.Stress and Cognition
Robert M. Sapolsky
1031
75.A General Circuitry Processing Reward/Aversion Information and Its Implications for Neuropsychiatric Illness
Hans C. Breiter and Gregory P. Gasic
1043
76.A Self Less Ordinary: The Medial Prefrontal Cortex and You
C. Neil Macrae, Todd F. Heatherton and William M. Kelley
1067
77.The Cognitive Neuroscience of Knowing One's Self
Stanley B. Klein
1077
78.Frontal Lobe Contributions to Executive Control of Cognitive and Social Behavior
Jennifer S. Beer, Arthur P. Shimamura and Robert T. Knight
1091
X.CONSCIOUSNESS1105
Introduction
Christof Koch
1107
79.How Can We Construct a Science of Consciousness?
David J. Chalmers
1111
80.The Neurology of Impaired Consciousness: Challenges for Cognitive Neuroscience
Nicholas D. Schiff
1121
81.A Framework for Consciousness
Francis C. Crick and Christof Koch
1133
82.Neural Mechanisms for Access to Consciousness
Stanislas Dehaene and Jean-Pierre Changeux
1145
83.Perceiving the World and Grasping It: Dissociations Between Conscious and Unconscious Visual Processing
Melvyn A. Goodale
1159
84.Neural Correlates of Visual Consciousness in Humans
Geraint Rees
1173
85.Split Decisions
George L. Wolford, Michael B. Miller and Michael S. Gazzaniga
1189
86.Authorship Processing
Daniel M. Wegner and Betsy Sparrow
1201
XI.PERSPECTIVES AND NEW DIRECTIONS1211
Introduction
Michael S. Gazzaniga
1213
87.Neuronal Studies of Decision Making in the Visual-Saccadic System
Paul W. Glimcher and Michael C. Dorris
1215
88.The Neurophysiology of Decision Making as a Window on Cognition
Michael N. Shadlen and Joshua I. Gold
1229
89.Cortical Plasticity in the Adult Human Brain
Megan S. Steven and Colin Blakemore
1243
90.Genes and the Development of Neural Networks Underlying Cognitive Processes
John A. Fossella and Michael I. Posner
1255
91.Functional Imaging, Neurophysiology, and the Resting State of the Human Brain
Debra A. Gusnard and Marcus E. Raichle
1267
92.Cognitive Neuroimaging: History, Developments, and Directions
John D. Van Horn
1281
93.Social Exchange: The Evolutionary Design of a Neurocognitive System
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
1295
94.Bioethical Issues in the Cognitive Neurosciences
Martha J. Farah
1309
Contributors1321
Index1327
 
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