Introduction to Cognitive Science

Neuroscience

Last Update: 26 September 2008

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  1. Humor:

  2. Two good books:

    1. O'Shea, Michael (2005), The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

    2. Baars, Bernard J.; & Gage, Nicole M. (eds.) (2007), Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (London: Academic Press).

  3. The next two items were found on: "Neuroscience and Behavior" (UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Division of Anatomy and Cell Biology).

    1. Stewart, Patricia; Wilson-Pauwels, Linda; & Cameron, Teddy, Neurons: Animated Cellular and Molecular Concepts (University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine).

        See especially:
      1. Ch. 1: Anatomy of a Neuron:

        1. §3: Functional components of neurons
        2. §6: Dendrites (esp.: incoming signals)
        3. §8: Axon (esp.: branch extensively)
        4. §9: (synapse)

      2. Ch. 2, §1: Axonal Transport

      3. Ch. 5, §7: Action Potential

      4. Ch. 7, §1: Postsynaptic Mechanisms

    2. Vilis, T. (2004), "Meds 1 Neurophysiology" (University of Western Ontario Department of Physiology & Pharmacology).

  4. Brain lobes

  5. McCulloch & Pitts neural nets

  6. NEW
    Thagard, Paul (2005),
    Ch. 9: "Brains", from Paul Thagard, Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, 2nd Edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press):147-160.

  7. Is the Brain a Computer?

  8. R. Douglas Fields (2008), "White Matter Matters", Scientific American (March): 54-61.

  9. Choi, Charles Q. (2008), "Do You Need Only Half Your Brain?", Scientific American (March): 104.




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