Contents of The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience

Chapter 1: Introducing Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Cognitive neuroscience in historical perspective.
- Does cognitive psychology need the brain?
- Does neuroscience need cognitive psychology?
- Boxed Material: Computational and connectionist models of cognition.
- Boxed Material: Is the brain modular?
Chapter 2: Introducing the Brain.
- Structure and function of the neuron.
- The gross organization of the brain.
- The cerebral cortex.
- The subcortex.
- The midbrain and hindbrain.
- Boxed Material: Ten interesting facts about the human brain.
Chapter 3: The Electrophysiological Brain.
- In search of neural representations: Single-cell
- Electroencephalography (EEG) and Event Related Potentials (ERPs).
- Mental chronometry in electrophysiology and cognitive psychology.
- Magnetoencephalography.
- Boxed Material: Practical issues to consider when doing research.
- Boxed Material: Why are caricatures easy to recognize?
Chapter 4: The Imaged Brain.
- Structural imaging.
- Functional imaging.
- From image to cognitive theory: An example of cognitive subtraction methodology.
- Beyond cognitive subtraction.
- Event-related versus blocked designs.
- Analyzing data from functional imaging.
- Interpreting data from functional imaging.
- Why do functional imaging data sometimes disagree with lesion data?
- Is "Big Brother" round the corner?
- Boxed Material: Voxel based morphometry (VBM): One of the latest methods of structural analysis.
- Boxed Material: Safety and ethical issues in functional imaging research.
- Boxed Material: Could functional imaging be used as a lie detector?
Chapter 5: The Lesioned Brain.
- Dissociations and associations.
- Single case studies.
- Group studies and lesion-deficit analysis.
- Animal models in neuropsychology.
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
- Boxed Material: Ways of acquiring brain damage.
- Boxed Material: What is the "visual" cortex of a blind person used for?
- Boxed Material: Safety and ethical issues in TMS research.
- Boxed Material: Facilitation, interference and functional integration using TMS.
Chapter 6: The Seeing Brain.
- From eye to brain.
- Cortical blindness and "blindsight".
- Functional specialization of the visual cortex beyond V1.
- Recognizing objects.
- Category specificity in visual object recognition?
- Recognizing faces.
- Vision imagined.
- Boxed Material: Would we notice a gorilla in our midst?
- Boxed Material: How does the brain respond to visual illusions?
- Boxed Material: The Margaret Thatcher illusion.
Chapter 7: The Spatial Brain.
- A spotlight on attention.
- Attending to visual objects: Feature-integration theory.
- Space, attention and the parietal lobes.
- Losing space: Seeing one object at a time.
- Losing half of space: Spatial frames and neglect.
- Remembering space: Does the hippocampus store a long-term map of the environment?
- Boxed Material: Why do actors make a hidden entrance from stage right?
- Boxed Material: How is the brain fooled by a ventriloquist?
- Boxed Material: Does driving a London taxi increase your grey matter?
Chapter 8: The Acting Brain.
- A basic cognitive framework for movement and action.
- The role of the frontal lobes in movement and action.
- Planning actions: The SAS model.
- Ownership and awareness of actions.
- Action comprehension and imitation.
- Parietofrontal circuits for sensory-motor transformation.
- Using objects and tools.
- Preparation and execution of actions.
- Boxed Material: Could neural activity in the primary motor cortex be used to guide a prosthetic limb?
- Boxed Material: The anarchic (or "alien") hand syndrome.
- Boxed Material: How to move a phantom limb.
Chapter 9: The Remembering Brain.
- Short-term and working memory.
- Different types of long-term memory.
- Amnesia.
- Memory storage and consolidation: A time-limited role for the hippocampus?
- Theories of remembering, knowing and forgetting.
- The role of the prefrontal cortex in long-term memory.
- Constructive memory and memory distortions.
- Boxed Material: Amnesia at the movies.
- Boxed Material: The neuroscience of consolidation.
- Boxed Material: Recovered memories of abuse can sometimes be false.
Chapter 10: The Speaking Brain.
- Speech perception.
- Spoken word recognition.
- Semantic memory and the meaning of words.
- Understanding and producing sentences.
- Retrieving spoken words.
- Boxed Material: Do non-human animals have language?
- Boxed Material: The N400 as an index of semantic congruity.
- Boxed Material: Looking back on Nineteenth Century models of speech and aphasia.
- Boxed Material: Early stages of dementia in the language use of Iris Murdoch.
Chapter 11: The Literate Brain.
- Visual word recognition.
- Does understanding text require phonological mediation?
- Reading aloud: Routes from spelling to sound.
- Spelling and writing.
- Does spelling use the same mechanisms as reading?
- Boxed Material: The origins and diversity of writing systems.
- Boxed Material: What do studies of eye movement reveal about reading text?
- Boxed Material: The unusual spelling and writing of Leonardo da Vinci.
Chapter 12: The Numerate Brain.
- Universal numeracy?
- The meaning of numbers.
- Models of number processing.
- Are numbers represented in a visuo-spatial code?
- Boxed Material: Counting with fingers, bodies and bases.
- Boxed Material: The making of mathematical genius.
Chapter 13: The Executive Brain.
- Anatomical and functional divisions of the prefrontal cortex.
- Executive functions in practice.
- Accounting for dysexecutive syndrome: How many executive functions?
- Functional specialization within the lateral prefrontal cortex?
- The role of the anterior cingulate in executive functions.
- Task switching.
- Boxed Material: The frontal lobes and intelligence.
- Boxed Material: Egas Moniz and the prefrontal lobotomy.
- Boxed Material: How does the brain appreciate humor?
Chapter 14: The Social and Emotional Brain.
- Processing emotions and social cues: Reading faces and reading eyes.
- Processing emotions: a role for somatic responses?
- Reading minds.
- Antisocial behavior.
- Boxed Material: Posed versus spontaneous emotional displays: Can you tell a sincere smile from an insincere smile?
- Boxed Material: Is autism an extreme form of the male brain?
- Boxed Material: The extraordinary case of Phineas Gage.