Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience

By Bradley R. Postle

"Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience supports high-level, substantive study in settings where contact hours and/or expectations for outside-of-the-classroom preparation time may be constrained. It introduces and explicates key principles and concepts in cognitive neuroscience to equip readers to critically evaluate the ever-growing body of findings that the field is generating. For some students, this knowledge will be needed for subsequent formal study, and for all readers it will be needed to evaluate and interpret reports about cognitive neuroscience research that make their way daily into the news media and popular culture. The book gives the student a sense of what it's like to be a cognitive neuroscientist: when confronted with a problem, how does one proceed? How does one read and interpret research that's outside of one's area of specialization? How do two scientists' advancing mutually incompatible models interrelate? Most importantly, what does it feel like to partake in the wonder and excitement of this most dynamic and fundamental of sciences?"-- Provided by publisher.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1394380143
• ISBN13: 9781394380145
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.7" x 1.5" x 8.5"