Cognitive Neuroscience Books

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21. The Body in the Brain

    Body Representations, Processes and Neural Mechanisms

    Edited by Stephen Jackson, Laurel Buxbaum, H. Coslett

    Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuroscience

    The past decade has seen increasing interest within the cognitive neuroscience community in understanding the psychological processes involved in representing the body, and in learning how these processes may be implemented within the brain. This special issue of Cognitive Neuroscience contributes...

    Published November 17th 2011 by Psychology Press
22. Attention, Representation, and Human Performance

    Integration of Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation

    Edited by Slim Masmoudi, David Yun Dai, Abdelmajid Naceur

    This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme: integration. Despite different research foci and methodologies, there is a strong consensus that we need to understand a...

    Published November 15th 2011 by Psychology Press
23. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Processing

    A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

    Edited by Wolfram Hinzen, David Poeppel

    Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

    The issue presents a selection of approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of semantic processing. The term ‘semantics’ covers a range of approaches: perception-based conceptual structures, the impact of concepts such as animacy on syntactically determined meaning, the unification of incoming...

    Published November 15th 2011 by Psychology Press
24. The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience

    By Jamie Ward

    Social neuroscience is an expanding field which, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by the...

    Published October 13th 2011 by Psychology Press
25. Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Cognitive Writing Research to Cognitive Psychology

    Edited by Virginia Wise Berninger

    This volume tells the story of research on the cognitive processes of writing—from the perspectives of the early pioneers, the contemporary contributors, and visions of the future for the field. Writing processes yield important insights into human cognition, and is increasingly becoming a...

    Published October 12th 2011 by Psychology Press
26. Cognition and Emotion

    Neuroscience and Behavioural Perspectives

    Edited by Philip Allen, Mei-Ching Lien, Eric Ruthruff

    Series: Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

    Emotions can have profound effects on a wide range of cognitive processes (from attention and memory to decision-making). In the reverse direction, there is clear evidence that cognitive processes can modulate emotional responses. This special issue provides a broad sampling of recent,...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Psychology Press
27. Neurobiology of Depression

    Edited by Francisco Lopez-Munoz, Cecilio Alamo

    Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience

    Major depressive disorders have recently been associated with impairments in signaling pathways that regulate neuroplasticity and cell survival. Agents designed to directly target molecules in these pathways hold promise as new therapeutics for depression. With the collaboration of the most...

    Published September 8th 2011 by CRC Press
28. Talking Heads

    The Neuroscience of Language

    By Gianfranco Denes

    The origin, development, and nature of language has been the focus of theoretical debate among philosophers for many centuries. Following the pioneering clinical observations 150 years ago of loss of language following a cerebral lesion, language started to be considered a biological system, that...

    Published September 6th 2011 by Psychology Press
29. The Tip of the Tongue State

    By Alan S. Brown

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    This book brings together the body of empirical findings and theoretical interpretations of the tip of the tongue (TOT) experience – when a well-known or familiar word cannot immediately be recalled. Although research has been published on TOTs for over a century, the experience retains its...

    Published July 19th 2011 by Psychology Press
30. Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain

    Cultural and Clinical Implications

    Edited by Jonathan Berger, Gabe Turow

    Series: Routledge Research in Music

    This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and...

    Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge