History of Cognitive Neuroscience [Paperback]

• Provides a companion work to the highly acclaimed Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience - combining scientific detail with philosophical insights
• Views the evolution of brain science through the lens of its principal figures and experiments
• Addresses philosophical criticism of Bennett and Hacker's previous book
• Accompanied by more than 100 illustrations

List of plates xvi

Foreword by Sir Anthony Kenny (President of the British Academy, 1989–93) xvii

Acknowledgements xx

Introduction 1

1. Perceptions, Sensations and Cortical Function: Helmholtz to Singer 4

1.1 Visual Illusions and their Interpretation by Cognitive Scientists 4

1.1.1 Misdescription of visual illusions by cognitive scientists 9

1.2 Gestalt Laws of Vision 10

1.3 Split-Brain Commissurotomy; the Two Hemispheres may Operate Independently 11

1.3.1 Misdescription of the results of commissurotomy 13

1.3.2 Explaining the discoveries derived from commissurotomies 13

1.4 Specificity of Cortical Neurons 15

1.4.1 Cardinal cells 18

1.4.2 Misdescription of experiments leading to the conception of cardinal cells 20

1.5 Multiple Pathways Connecting Visual Cortical Modules 22

1.6 Mental Images and Representations 26

1.6.1 Misconceptions about images and representations 28