Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience

Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience is the first book of extensive readings in anexciting new field that is built on the assumption that "the mind is what the brain does," and thatseeks to understand how brain function gives rise to mental activities such as perception, memory,and language. The editors, a cognitive scientist and a neuroscientist, have worked together toselect contributions that provide the interdisciplinary foundations of this emerging field, puttingthem into context, both historically and with regard to current issues.Fifty-five articles aregrouped in sections that cover attention, vision, auditory and somatosensory systems, memory, andhigher cortical functions. They range from Gazzaniga and Bogen's discussion of functional effects ofsectioning the cerebral commissure in man and Geschwind's classic study of the organization oflanguage in the brain, published in the 1960s, to contemporary investigations by Schiller andLogothetis on color-opponent and broad-band channels of the primate visual system and by Bekkers andStevens on presynaptic mechanisms for long-term potentiation in the hippocampus. The editors haveprovided both a general introduction and introductions to each of the five major sections.StephenKosslyn is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Richard Andersen is Professor ofNeuroscience and Director of the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.