Table of Contents

1. A framework for mind and brain 2. The Brain 3. Observing the Brain 4. The Art of Seeing 5. Sound, Speech, and Music Perception 6. Language and Thought 7. Learning and Remembering 8. Attention and Consciousness 9. Decisions, Goals, and Actions 10. Humans are Social Beings 11. Feelings 12. Sleep and levels of consciousness 13. Disorders of Consciousness 14. Growing Up

About the Author

Dr. Gage is a researcher at the University of California, Irvine, and the director of UCI’s Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory. She actively teaches in the area of consciousness and cognition and is the coauthor, with Bernard Baars, of our highly successful graduate-level cognitive neuroscience textbook on which Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience is based. Dr. Baars is a former senior fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, and a worldwide leader in the study of cognitive architecture and consciousness. He cofounded both the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the Academic Press journal Consciousness & Cognition.