Memory, Attention, and Decision-Making
«It is a majestic work, underpinned by a frightening capacity for memory and research and a sinuous flair for exegesis. The industry behind the text is clear, astonishing, laudable and often breath-taking.»
Applied Cognitive Psychology
Memory, attention, and decision-making are three major areas of psychology. They are frequently studied in isolation, and using a range of models to understand them. This book brings a unified approach to understanding these three processes. Les mer
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functional neuroimaging, and the effects of brain damage, to a description of how neural networks in the brain implement these functions using a set of common principles. The book describes the principles of operation of these networks, and how they could implement such important functions as memory,
attention, and decision-making.
The topics covered include
The hippocampus and memory
Reward and punishment related learning: emotion and motivation
Visual object recognition learning
Short term memory
Attention, short term memory, and biased competition
Probabilistic decision-making
Action selection
Decision-making
Also included are tutorial appendices on
Neural networks in the brain
Neural encoding in the brain
'Memory, Attention and Decision-Making' will be valuable for those in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience from advanced undergraduate level upwards. It will also be of interest to those interested in neuroeconomics, animal behaviour, zoology, evolutionary biology, psychiatry, medicine, and philosophy. The book has been written with modular chapters and sections, making it possible to select particular Chapters for course work.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780199232703
- Utgivelsesår
- 2007
- Format
- 25 x 18 cm
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«It is a majestic work, underpinned by a frightening capacity for memory and research and a sinuous flair for exegesis. The industry behind the text is clear, astonishing, laudable and often breath-taking.»
Applied Cognitive Psychology
«The main strength of this book, compared to similar computational neuroscience books, is the functional, practical, and clinical links that are made to theoretical and computational models. The overall significance and contribution of computational neuroscience in quite apparent and the marriage of these models with neuropsychology and neuroimaging is well conceived.»
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