Perspectives on cognitive neuroscience

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PART I: LEVEL OF ANALYSIS: Introduction Patricia S. Churchland and Terrence J. Senjnowski: Perspectives on cognitive neuroscience Richard F. Thompson and Mark A. Gluck: Basic substrates of basic associative learning and memory Tim Tully: Drosophila's role in identifying the building blocks of associative learning and memory Nicholas J. Mackintosh: Simple conditioning Craig H. Bailey: Morphological basis of short- and long-term memory in Aplysia Bruce L. McNaughton and Paul Smolensky: Connectionist and neural modelling: converging in the hippocampus Gary Lynch, John Larson, Ursula Stabubli and Jose Ambros-Ingerson: An experimental psychologist's view of cognitive science Commentary on Part I PART II: DISSOCIATIONS AND MODELS: Introduction Lawrence Weiskrantz: Dissociations and associations in neuropsychology Daniel L. Schachter and Lynn Nadel: Varieties of spatial memory: a problem for cognitive neuroscience David S. Olton, Cynthia Wible and Alicja L. Markowska: A comparative analysis of the role of the hippocampal system in memory Marcia K. Johnson and William Hirst: Processing subsystems of memory Raymond P. Kesner: The emergence of multidimentional approaches to the structural organization of memory Morris Moscovitch and Carlo Umilta: Consciousness and nonconscious processes in memory and attention Commentary on Part II PART II: MODULATION AND COGNITION: Introduction James L. McGaugh: Neuromodulation and the storage of information: involvement of the Amygdaloid complex George F. Koob: Arousal, stress and inverted U-shaped curves: implications for cognitive function Michael W. Eysenck: Anxiety and cognitive functioning: a multi-faceted approach Howard Leventhal: Emotion: prospectus for conceptual and empirical development Commentary on Part III PART IV: CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES: Introduction Muriel D. Lezek: Identifying neuropsychological deficits William Milberg and Marilyn Albert: The speed of constituent mental operations and its relationship to neuronal representation Brenda Rapp and Alfonso Caramazza: Cognitive neuropsychology: from impaired performance to normal cognitive structure Shepard Siegel: Feed-forward processes in drug tolerance and dependence Ruben C. Gur and Raquel E. Gur: The impact of neuroimaging on human neuropsychology Alan M. Palmer and David M. Bowen: Neurochemical approaches to cognitive disorders Anthony C. Santucci, Vahram Haroutunian, Linda M. Bierer and Kenneth L. Davis: Approaches to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease Commentary on Part IV Concluding remarks.