Cognitive Neuroscience Arena

Making Minds

What's wrong with education - and what should we do about it?

• By Paul Kelley

Making Minds is a controversial critique of our education systems. The author is a school leader ‘at the forefront of scientific and technological advancement in...

Published July 12th 2007 by Routledge.

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Psychophysiology

Human Behavior and Physiological Response

• By John L. Andreassi

This highly readable and comprehensive overview of psychophysiology provides information regarding the anatomy and physiology of various body systems, methods of recording their activity, and...

Published September 19th 2006 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Effort

A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will

• By Jay Schulkin

In Effort: A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will, author Jay Schulkin presents a two-fold thesis: there is no absolute separation of the cognitive and...

Published July 18th 2006 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Patient Treatment Adherence

Concepts, Interventions, and Measurement

• Edited by Hayden B. Bosworth, Eugene Z. Oddone, Morris Weinberger

This new book summarizes the adherence literature for a number of specific health behaviors and populations. It provides a comprehensive source on the conceptualization, interventions,...

Published August 22nd 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Instant Notes in Neuroscience

• By Alan Longstaff

The second edition of Instant Notes in Neuroscience covers neuroanatomy, cellular and molecular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, behaviour, development of the nervous system, learning, memory, and...

Published May 26th 2005 by Taylor and Francis.

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Pain

Psychological Perspectives

• Edited by Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Kenneth D. Craig

This invaluable new resource presents a state-of-the-art account of the psychology of pain from leading researchers. It features contributions from clinical, social, and biopsychological perspectives,...

Published December 1st 2003 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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American Neuroscience in the Twentieth Century

• By H.W. Magoun, L. Marshall

A history of how neural, behavioural and communicative subdisciplines coalesced in neuroscience to create a promising approach to understanding the relation of mind to brain....

Published January 1st 2003 by Garland Science.

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Early Frontal Lobe Damage and Development

A Special Issue of Developmental Neurpsychology

• Edited by Daniel Tranel, Paul J. Eslinger

The consequences of early-onset brain damage for the development of cognition and behavior have recently been identified as top research priorities by the NINDS. This...

Published May 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Mechanisms of Cognitive Development

Behavioral and Neural Perspectives

• Edited by James L. McClelland, Robert Siegler

This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research...

Published March 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Model Systems and the Neurobiology of Associative Learning

A Festschrift in Honor of Richard F. Thompson

• Edited by Joseph E. Steinmetz, Mark A. Gluck, Paul R. Solomon

This volume contains a collection of papers written by former students, postdoctoral fellows, and colleagues of Richard Thompson and represent written versions of papers presented...

Published February 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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