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Summary: COULD BE ALOT BETTER
Review: Although the illustrations in this book are great, there are a few errors. Also alot of the examples are confusing to understand, and could be written more clearly and to the point. Of course this is the first edition, so hopefully there will be a good revision for the second edition
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Summary: Not an Introductory Text
Review: As others have commented there are a few mistakes, and a few areas that were not well worded or explained, but with a good revision this could be a very useful introductory text. Until that revision I do not recomend it as a primary introductory text.
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Summary: Needs a revision
Review: As others have commented there are a few mistakes, and a few areas that were not well worded or explained, but with a good revision this could be a very useful introductory text. Until that revision I do not recomend it as a primary introductory text.
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Summary: Not an introductory book to first begin reading ....
Review: Cognitive Neuroscience by Gazzaniga, is not an introductory textbook. Actually it is meant for the third year psychology students.The book which requires basic background in neuro-terminology, and it is quite an affortable book to own. It is quite easy to follow through the readings ... provided that you had done foundations in biological/cognitive psychology....which will greatly assist the reader through difficulties !!! Gazzaniga's Cognitive Neuroscience - is best if it is complemented with a clincal experiment done in the lab - requiring students to perform clinical research trials (cognitive experiments) and to submit an empirical research proposal. The text is used in complement to assist the student in writing the empicial research report - mainly in the 'introduction' and 'discussion' section. For instance, a lab experiment in 'letter-matching tasks' (to analyse parallel distributed processing tasks and reaction time in relation to size of letters and words - pp.94-96)could be found in the textbook to assist in writing the research report. This book accordingly to my personal opinion, is best use for assisting in research report writtings and in replicating clinical research studies. It is not advisable to read the book from chapter 1 in accordance steps to chapter 10. An advise from the lecturer and tutor is required before reading the text, as I do find some difficulties in assessing the materials of this book.
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Summary: I agree, very hard to understand
Review: I agree that the book could be written more clearly. Gazzaniga is a leading expert in the field, but he should be able to write more clearly
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Summary: very thorough
Review: I agree with other reviewers that this is not best suited as an introductory textbook; however it seems to work fine as a source of information for the student who has already taken intro psychology. There is a lot of terminology, but everything seemed to be very well explained. We did note an error or two. Overall I think this book is great.
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Summary: Additions to this book
Review: I am a fourth year neuroscience major and found this book to be extremely verbose and boring. The chapters are 50 pages long at least and the author continually digresses into random tangents so you're left bored and confused at the end of each chapter. Do NOT buy it unless you want to be even more confused in your course than necessary!
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Summary: Verbose and EXTREMELY boring
Review: I am a fourth year neuroscience major and found this book to be extremely verbose and boring. The chapters are 50 pages long at least and the author continually digresses into random tangents so you're left bored and confused at the end of each chapter. Do NOT buy it unless you want to be even more confused in your course than necessary!
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Summary: Not an Introductory Text
Review: I am currently studying this text in an introductory class. It seems to be a source of frustration to most of the course's students. The text's overall organization is to compare studies of animals and humans, discuss how they differ from or support one another, and show how they may reveal underlying mechanisms for behavior. However, this structure is never made clear. To the beginning psych student, the text comes across as a jumbled mess of conflicting data and jargon. There is no glossary supplied, and as if that weren't enough, the index is not thorough. Most of the faults with this book arise from poor editing rather than writing. It's clear that the authors are experts in their field; however, as experts, their writing is at too high of a level for the beginning student. If this book is intended for an introductory class, the editors should be more careful about clearly defining difficult terms and removing as much cognitive neuroscience lingo as possible. Further, although the graphics are nice to look at, many of their captions introduce new concepts not discussed in the text or fail to clarify what is depicted. As a side note, the editors should also look closely at the headings and subheadings: many are placed incorrectly and add little or no value to reading comprehension. In short, this is a good text for someone who wants a broad review of a field they are already familiar with. It will need a second or third edition if it is to be appropriate for an introductory class.
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Summary: Best overall for Cogntive Neuroscience
Review: I have used it in an upper division undergraduate psychology class, and in my students' rankings of textbooks, this book has consistently been ranked higher than any other text I've used. The level is beyond a simple introductory psychology text, but is very appropriate for the upper division course. The numerous full-color illustrations and photographs are especially helpful in illustrating key points. It covers the full spectrum of the neural basis of cognition, from simple perception through the biology of emotion to the basis of consciousness (with very interesting case studies of brain damaged patients throughout).
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