Cognitive Neuroscience
A Very Short Introduction
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- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2016
Summary
Up to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable scientifically. This began to change with the devising of methods to try to tap into what was going on in the ‘black box’ of the mind, and the development of ‘cognitive psychology’.
With the study of patients who had suffered brain damage or injury to limited parts of the brain, outlines of brain…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198786221 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198786220 |
| Author: | Richard Passingham |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 121g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 111mm x 175mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Richard Passingham
Richard Passingham received his BA from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of London. He returned to Oxford in 1970 and was made a University Lecturer and Fellow of Wadham College in 1976. He was amongst the first to use brain imaging to study human cognition, starting in 1988 at the MRC Cyclotron Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital where he was an Honorary Senior Lecturer. In 1996 he moved to the newly founded Wellcome Centre forNeuroImaging at the University of London where he was an Honorary Principal. He was made Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford in 1997. His books include What is Special about the HumanBrain? (OUP, 2008), The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex (OUP, 2014), with Steven P. Wise, and A Short Guide to Brain Imaging (OUP, 2015), with James B. Rowe.
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