Cognitive Neuroscience News & Updates – Page 2

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    Language and Action in Cognitive Neuroscience

    This book collates the most up to date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language processing.

12. 

    The Neural Basis of Human Belief Systems

    Is the everyday understanding of belief susceptible to scientific investigation? Belief is one of the most commonly used, yet unexplained terms in neuroscience. Beliefs can be seen as forms of mental representations and one of the building blocks of our conscious thoughts.

    This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of what we currently know about the neural basis of human belief systems, and how different belief systems are implemented in the human brain. The chapters in this volume explain how the neural correlates of beliefs mediate a range of explicit and implicit behaviours ranging from moral decision making, to the practice of religion.

    The Neural Basis of Human Belief Systems will be of great interest to researchers in the fields of psychology, philosophy, psychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience.

13. 

    The Student’s Guide to Social Neuroscience

    The first book of its kind, this engaging and cutting-edge text is an ideal introduction to the methods and concepts of social neuroscience for undergraduate and postgraduate students in fields such as psychology and neuroscience. Each chapter is richly illustrated in attractive full-color with figures, boxes, and 'real-world' implications of research. Several pedagogical features help students engage with the material, including essay questions, summary and key points, and further reading. This book is accompanied by substantial online resources that are available to qualifying adopters.

14. 

    The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition

    A new, thoroughly-updated edition of Jamie Ward's best-selling textbook

    Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function, as well as all the key methods and procedures of cognitive neuroscience, with a view to helping students understand how they can be used to shed light on the neural basis of cognition.

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    Cognitive Neuropsychology Student Travel Awards – winners!

    To recognize and promote outstanding work by young researchers in the field, the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology has announced the first three winners of its Student Travel Awards.

    Congratulations to Jacqueline Snow, Gilles Vannuscorps and Joris Vangeneugden! The winners will receive awards of up to USD $750 to assist travel costs for attending the conference where they’ll present their work. The three successful abstracts were selected on the basis of their scientific merit and for their contribution to the field of Cognitive Neuropsychology.
     

16. 

    Cognitive Neuroscience - FULL ACCESS to Vols 1 and 2 in 2012

    In its short lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience has already established itself as a key focal point for the field.
    
    The journal is consolidating this position in 2012 by allowing full, FREE online access to its two-volume archive.
    
    • Click here for links to all four issues of Cognitive Neuroscience Volume 1 (2010).
    • Click here for links to all four issues of Cognitive Neuroscience Volume 2 (2011).

17. 

    Read Online ‘Modular Processes in Mind and Brain’ by Saul Sternberg

    In this outstanding new article Saul Sternberg extends his classic methods for using behavioral measures to decompose mental processes by showing how brain-based measures can now be used to derive inferences about the organization of both cognitive and neural processes.

    At over 50 pages in length this article is an essential contribution to the literature on brain specialization and modularity, a must read for anyone interested in Cognitive Psychology or Neuropsychology.

18. 

    The Developing Mind, Second Edition

    Presenting pioneering research on early relationships and the developing brain, this bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for many tens of thousands of clinicians, researchers, and students. 

    Daniel J. Siegel traces the interplay of human and neural connections in early childhood, examining the implications for attachment, mental processes such as memory and emotion, and psychological well-being throughout life. The new edition incorporates expanded discussions of cutting-edge topics, including neuroplasticity, epigenetics, mindfulness, and the neural correlates of consciousness.