Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention.QP405 2004-006240 1-59385-048-4 Cognitive neuroscience Noun 1. cognitive neuroscience - the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena neuroscience - the scientific study of the nervous system of attention. Title main entry. Ed. by Michael I Michael I, Byzantine emperor Michael I (Michael Rangabe), d. c.845, Byzantine emperor (811–13), son-in-law of Nicephorus I. He supported orthodoxy against iconoclasm and recalled Theodore of Studium from exile. . Posner. Guilford Pr., [c]2004 466 p. $75.00 Posner (psychology, Institute of Neuroscience, U. of Oregon) describes this volume as a "snapshot of the rather amazing progress" made in cognitive, neurosystemic, cellular, synaptic synaptic /syn·ap·tic/ (si-nap´tik) 1. pertaining to or affecting a synapse. 2. pertaining to synapsis. syn·ap·tic adj. Of or relating to synapsis or a synapse. and genetic research on attention. The papers all approach attention as an organ system but vary in the methods of research they report. Posner has grouped them by method and focus into sections on cognitive studies, imaging, genes and synapses, development, and deficits of attention. Individual topics include probing the flexibility of attentional orienting in the human brain; attention-related signaling activities of the [D.sub.4] dopamine receptor; and attention, emotion and the development of psychopathology psychopathology /psy·cho·pa·thol·o·gy/ (-pah-thol´ah-je) 1. the branch of medicine dealing with the causes and processes of mental disorders. 2. abnormal, maladaptive behavior or mental activity. . |
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