Brain, Perception, Memory

"There is no doubt that postgraduate students and researchers in cognitive neuroscience will find this book to be a useful tool and I would not hesitate to recommend it . . . The relatively short length of the essays and their overview of current research, make them ideal reading material for more advanced researchers . . . The book therefore serves as an ideal starting place for cognitive psychologists who want to know more about cognitive neuroscience."

• PART ONE: MECHANISMS OF PERCEPTION AND ATTENTION ; 1. From vision to action: How the primate brain encodes and remembers visuo-motor space ; 2. Integrating information from different senses in the superior colliculus ; 3. Response synchronization, a neural code for relatedness ; 4. Visual attention in mind and brain ; 5. Predispositions in perceptual and cognitive development ; PART TWO: LEARNING AND MEMORY: MOLECULES, CELLS AND CIRCUITS ; 6. Neural mechanisms of olfactory recognition memory ; 7. The neural basis of avian song learning and perception ; 8. The avian hippocampal formation and memory for hoarded food: spatial learning out in the real world ; 9. To consolidate or not to consolidate: What are the questions? ; 10. Genetic strategies for the study of hippocampal based memory storage ; 11. Neuronal correlates of recognition memory ; PART THREE: LEARNING AND MEMORY: COGNITIVE SYSTEMS IN ANIMALS AND HUMANS ; 12. Skill learning: the role of the cerebellum ; 13. Brain systems and the regulation of memory consolidation ; 14. How the brain learns about danger ; 15. Models of memory: the case of imprinting ; 16. The hippocampus, perirhinal cortex and memory in the monkey ; 17. Functional neuroimaging and memory systems ; 18. To have but not to hold ; PART FOUR: EPILOGUE ; 19. In Memory