Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience articles from January 1996

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience archives from January 1996

Computerized mappings of the cerebral cortex: a multiresolution flattening method and a surface-based coordinate system.
January 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The extensive convolutions of the cerebral cortex that are present in many mammalian species pose a practical obstacle for neuroscientists who study cortical organization and function. A central problem is the difficulty in...

Hearing in the mind's ear: a PET investigation of musical imagery and perception.
January 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION When asked to imagine the appearance of a tiger, the sound of wind chimes, or the smell of popcorn, many people report an experience similar to that of actually viewing the tiger, hearing the wind chimes, or smelling the popcorn....

The organization of brain activations in number comparison: event-related potentials and the additive-factors method.
January 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION A goal of cognitive psychology is to understand the organization of information processing in human subjects. Cognitive psychology is still dominated by the functionalist approach, according to which it is possible to describe...

Neural representations: some old problems revisited.
January 1, 1996... NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND REALITY Our nervous systems, which is to say we ourselves, rely on an extremely complex stream of neural impulses from receptors for all the information we have about our surroundings. The smells, songs, squirrels,...

Individual differences in cerebral blood flow in Area 17 predict the time to evaluate visualized letters.
January 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The "imagery debate" of the 1970s and 1980s focused on the question of whether visual mental images rely on a representation that depicts information (for a review, see Kosslyn, 1994). Behavioral data proved inadequate to...

Interview with Michael I. Posner.(Interview)
January 1, 1996... Michael Posner has been professor of psychology at the University of Oregon since 1965. His work has generally been in the area of selective attention. During the 1960s and 1970s, Posner's work relied primarily on chronometric methods and is best...