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Posner, Michael I. – 1987
While neuropsychology relates the neural structures damaged in traumatic brain injury with their cognitive functions in daily life, this report reviews evidence that elementary operations of cognition as defined by cognitive studies are the level at which the brain localizes its computations. Orienting of visual attention is used as a model task.…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Deficit Disorders, Brain, Medical Research
Wolfe, Patricia – 2001
Maintaining that educators need a functional understanding of the brain and how it operates in order to teach effectively and to critically analyze the vast amount of neuroscientific information being published, this book provides information on brain-imaging techniques and the anatomy and physiology of the brain. The book also introduces a model…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Auditory Perception, Brain, Cognitive Processes