lee_zsu at hotmail.com (H.Lee) wrote in message news:<a8279a00.0208050647.74d77b91 at posting.google.com>...
> i found these books on amazon:
>> Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reader, 2000
> Cognitive Neuroscience, Second Edition, 2002
> The New Cognitive Neurosciences : Second Edition, 2000
> Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences, 1996
>> confused, what's the difference between them??
I have the Reader and it is sort of a amalgam of seminal papers in
different areas of cognitive neuroscience, mostly written by the
original scientists. The 'New Cognitive Neurosciences' is a whopping
great textbook that is a standard reference for cognitive
neuroscience, and about five times the price of the reader. Cognitive
Neuroscience (2nd in your list) is, I think, an introductory text on
cognitive neuroscience. I'm not sure about the last in your list.
Essentially both the 1st and 2nd above are introductory texts but
whereas the 2002 book is a gentler introduction, the Reader assumes a
scientific background and plunges in at the level of describing
experimental results in detail.
