Behavioral Neuroscience Books

New and Published Books

1. Understanding Cognitive Development

   Approaches from Mind and Brain

   Edited by Barbara Landau

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   The papers in this volume examine the state of the art in key areas of developmental cognitive neuroscience, focusing on theoretically driven research on cognition and its development. The past decade has seen an increasing number of empirical papers on the relationship between brain and cognitive...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. 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 March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
3. 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 March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
4. 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 March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
5. 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 March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
6. Attention in Action

   Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience

   Edited by Glyn Humphreys, Jane Riddoch

   Series: Advances in Behavioural Brain Science

   Over the past forty years much work has assessed how attention modulates perception, but relatively little work has evaluated the role of attention in action. This is despite the fact that recent research indicates that the relation between attention and action is a crucial factor in human...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
7. Automaticity and Control in Language Processing

   Edited by Antje Meyer, Linda Wheeldon, Andrea Krott

   Series: Advances in Behavioural Brain Science

   The use of language is a fundamental component of much of our day-to-day life. Language often co-occurs with other activities with which it must be coordinated. This raises the question of whether the cognitive processes involved in planning spoken utterances and in understanding them are...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
8. Forgetting

   Edited by Sergio Della Sala

   Series: Current Issues in Memory

   Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory. This...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
9. Behavior Analysis and Learning

   Fifth Edition

   By W. David Pierce, Carl D. Cheney

   Behavior Analysis and Learning, Fifth Edition is an essential textbook covering the basic principles in the field of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, as pioneered by B. F. Skinner. The textbook provides an advanced introduction to operant conditioning from a very consistent Skinnerian...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Psychology Press
10. Development and Brain Systems in Autism

    Edited by Marcel Adam Just, Kevin A. Pelphrey

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    This volume covers several perspectives on autism which bring together the most recent scientific views of the nature of this disorder. A number of themes organize major developments and emerging areas in autism: Cognitive and neural systems development: how autism arises in the behavior and...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Psychology Press