Cognitive Neuroscience Arena

Computational Modelling

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Gary S. Dell, Alfonso Caramazza

The papers in the special issue describe computational models and principles that attempt to explain the performance of brain damaged subjects. The models elucidate the...

Published July 1st 2008 by Psychology Press.

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Introducing Neuropsychology, 2nd edition

• By Rebecca Elliott, John Stirling

Introducing Neuropsychology, second edition investigates the functions of the brain and explores the relationships between brain systems and human behaviour. The material is presented in...

Published June 20th 2008 by Psychology Press.

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The Frog who Croaked Blue

Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses

• By Jamie Ward

As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of...

Published April 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Rhythm, Music, and the Brain

Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications

• By Michael Thaut

Now available in Paperback!

With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human brain "live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.

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Memory

• Edited by Jackie Andrade

The term ‘memory’ encompasses our recollections of past experiences, our ability to keep track of what is happening from moment to moment, our stored knowledge,...

Published October 31st 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Mental Mechanisms

Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience

• By William Bechtel

A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But,...

Published October 29th 2007 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Prospective Memory

Cognitive, Neuroscience, Developmental, and Applied Perspectives

• Edited by Matthias Kliegel, Mark A. McDaniel, Gilles O. Einstein

Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory – the encoding, storage and delayed retrieval of intended actions – has attracted much interest, and...

Published October 16th 2007 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication

• By Vesna Mildner

This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech...

Published October 12th 2007 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Interpersonal Sensitivity

A special issue of Social Neuroscience

• Edited by Jean Decety, Dan Batson

Interpersonal sensitivity refers to our ability to perceive and respond with care to the internal states of other people, understand the antecedents of those states,...

Published September 14th 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception

• Edited by John J. Rieser, Daniel H. Ashmead, Ford Ebner, Anne L. Corn

Research into the development of sensory structures in the brains of blind or visually-impaired individuals has opened a window into important ways in which the...

Published August 10th 2007 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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