(Publisher-supplied data) ELAINE FOX is Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex. She lectured at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and University College Dublin before taking up her current role in 1994. She was Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion f…
"After years of neglect by both mainstream biology and psychology, the study of emotions has emerged as a central topic of scientific inquiry in the vibrant new discipline of affective neuroscience. Elizabeth Johnston and Leah Olson trace how work in this rapidly expanding field…
"A focus on the body, its actions, and its cognitive mechanisms identifies ... foundational principles of activity that link the three elements of theatre; Story, Space, and Time. The three meet in, are defined by, and expressed through the actor's body."--The Introduction?Embod…
Features --Neuroimaging cannot tell us how neurons are supporting psychological mental processes. --The powerful empirical insights obtained by imaging methods are overshadowed by claims that they can identify abstract mental processes. --Overreaching claims about identifying ab…
Principles of cognitive neuroscience
What happens inside our brains when we think about money? Quite a lot, actually, and some of it isn't good for our financial health. In Your Money and Your Brain, Jason Zweig explains why smart people make stupid financial decisions -- and what they can do to avoid these mistake…
This textbook provides a true introduction to functional magnetic resonance imaging, which has become the dominant research technique in cognitive neuroscience.
The audacious effort to map the brain--and along with it our mental afflictions, from autism to schizophrenia--by a rising star in neuroscience.