Synopses & Reviews
Cognitive neuroscience has grown into a rich and complex discipline, some 35 years after the term was coined. Given the great expanse of the field, an inclusive and authoritative resource such as this handbook is needed for examining the current state-of-the-science in cognitive neuroscience.
Spread across two volumes, the 59 chapters included in this handbook systemically survey all aspects of cognitive neuroscience, spanning perception, attention, memory, language, emotion, self and social cognition, higher cognitive functions, and clinical applications. Additional chapters cover topics ranging from the use of top-down cognitive processes in visual perception to the representation and recognition of objects and spatial relations; attention and its relationship to action as well as visual motor control; language and related core abilities including semantics, speech perception and production, the distinction between linguistic competence and performance, and the capacity for written language. Special coverage is also given to chapters describing the psychopharmacology of cognition, the theory of mind, the neuroscience underlying the regulation of emotion, and neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence that supports the special status of self-knowledge in memory.
This handbook provides a comprehensive compendium of research on cognitive neuroscience that will be widely accessible to students, researchers, and professionals working in this exciting and growing field.
Review
"This volume is highly recommended for graduate-level libraries" --Paul E Tibbetts, The Quarterly Review of Biology
About the Author
Kevin N. Ochsner, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology, and Director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Columbia University.
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. He was formerly chair of the Department of Psychology, Dean of Social Science, and the John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1
1. Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience: Where are we now?
Kevin N. Ochsner and Stephen M. Kosslyn
Part One: Perception
2. Representation of Objects
Kalanit Grill-Spector
3. Representation of Spatial Relations
Bruno Laeng
4. Top-down Effects in Visual Perception
Moshe Bar and Andreja Bubic
5. Neural Underpinning of Object Mental Imagery, Spatial Imagery, and Motor Imagery
Grégoire Borst
6. Looking at the Nose Through Human Behavior, and at Human Behavior Through the Nose
Roni Kahana and Noam Sobel
7. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
Petr Janata
8. Audition
Josh H. McDermott
9. Neural Correlates of the Development of Speech Perception and Comprehension
Angela D. Friederici and Claudia Männel
10. Perceptual Disorders
Josef Zihl
Part Two: Attention
11. Varieties of Auditory Attention
Claude Alain, Stephen R. Arnott, and Benjamin J. Dyson
12. Spatial Attention
Jeffrey Nicol
13. Attention and Action
14. The Visual Control of Action
Melvyn A. Goodale
15. Development of Attention
M. Rosario Rueda
16. Attentional Disorders
Laure Pisella, A. Blangero, C. Tilikete, D. Biotti, G. Rode, A. Vighetto, J.B. Mattingley, and Y. Rossetti
Part Three: Memory
17. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Memory
Eiling Yee, Evangelia G. Chrysikou, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
18. Cognitive Neuroscience of Episodic Memory
Lila Davachi and Jared Danker
19. Working Memory
Bradley R. Buchsbaum and Mark D'Esposito
20. Motor Skill Learning
Rachael D. Seidler, Bryan L. Benson, Nathaniel B. Boyden, and Youngbin Kwak
21. Memory Consolidation
John T. Wixted and Denise J. Cai
22. Age-related Decline in Working Memory and Episodic Memory: Contributions of the Prefrontal Cortex and Medial Temporal Lobes
Sander Daselaar and Roberto Cabeza
23. Memory Disorders
Barbara A Wilson and Jessica Fish
Part Four: Language
24. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Written