Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction

by Richard Passingham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198786220
• ISBN13: 9780198786221
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 6.8"