Neuroscience techniques
Investigative techniques to study human cognition
are examined in
Methods inMind. Part of the “Cognitive Neuroscience”
series, the illustrated 376-page volume emphasizes how increasingly sophisticated
methods can be used in innovative ways and how they can be integrated to strengthen
empirical findings. Written by experts in the field, the chapters cover specific
approaches, among them eye movements, electroencephalography, computational modeling,
cognitive neuropsychiatry, transcranial magnetic stimulation, lesion studies in
nonhuman primates, and single neurons and primate behavior. Cross-method approaches
such as the use of functional MRI to constrain magnetoencephalography and the integration
of neuroimaging and genetic analysis are highlighted. The use of grid computing
to analyze massive datasets in cyberspace also is described. An index is provided.
Carl Senior, Tamara Russell and Michael S. Gazzaniga, eds.; !%The MIT Press%!, Cambridge,
Mass., 2006; $55.
LATEST NEWS