Behavioral Neuroscience Books

New and Published Books

1. The Equilibrium of Human Syntax

   Symmetries in the Brain

   By Andrea Moro

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning

   Edited by Albert Gollhofer, Wolfgang Taube, Jens Bo Nielsen

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of neurophysiological, behavioural and biomechanical aspects of motor function. Adopting an integrative approach, it examines the full range of key topics in contemporary human movement...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology

   Edited by George Houghton

   Series: Studies in Cognition

   Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology is a state-of-the-art review of neural network modelling in core areas of cognitive psychology including: memory and learning, language (written and spoken), cognitive development, cognitive control, attention and action. The chapters discuss neural...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
4. Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience

   Edited by Philip David Zelazo, Michael Chandler, Eveline Crone

   Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series

   This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
5. 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, and measurement of treatment adherence and a synthesis of the research across demographic and chronic diseases....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
6. The Development of Autobiographical Memory

   By Hans J. Markowitsch, Harald Welzer

   Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and an autobiographical memory are all...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
7. Space and Sense

   By Susanna Millar

   Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

   How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute? This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
8. Infant EEG and Event-Related Potentials

   Edited by Michelle de Haan

   Series: Studies in Developmental Psychology

   Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are one of the few methods that can easily and safely be used to study this process, and have led to exciting discoveries about human brain functioning and the neural basis of cognition. Over...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
9. 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, the latest theories of pain, as well as basic processes and applied issues. The book opens with an...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
10. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Development

    Edited by Michelle de Haan, Mark H. Johnson

    Series: Studies in Developmental Psychology

    How are the experiences of childhood incorporated into the structures of the developing brain, and how do these changes in the brain influence behaviour? This is one of the many questions motivating research in the relatively new field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. This book provides an...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press