Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences
Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences is a brief, informative
yet informal guide to recent developments in the cognitive
neurosciences by the scientists who are in the thick of things.
"Getting a fix on important questions and how to think about them from
an experimental point of view is what scientists talk about, sometimes
endlessly. It is those conversations that thrill and motivate,"
observes Michael Gazzaniga. Yet all too often these exciting
interactions are lost to students, researchers, and others who are
"doing" science. Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences brings
together a series of interviews with prominent individuals in
neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology that have
appeared over the past few years in the Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience.
The ten interviews are divided into five sections: basic neuroscience
approaches to cognition (Floyd Bloom and Mark Raichle), attentional and
perceptual processes (Michael I. Posner and William T. Newsome), neural
basis of memory (Randy Gallistel and Endel Tulving), language (Steven
Pinker and Alfonso Caramazza), and imagery and consciousness (Stephen
M. Kosslyn and Daniel C. Dennett)