Neurosciences

Since the 1980s, MRI scanners have told us much about brain function and played an important role in the clinical diagnosis of a number of conditio...

What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an "aesthetic" experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye (and brain) o...

Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. For example, when a pedestrian steps onto a street and then suddenly steps b...

The activity of neurons in the brain is noisy in that their firing times are random when they are firing at a given mean rate. This introduces a ra...

Do humans start life with the capacity to detect and mentally represent the objects around them? Or is our object knowledge instead derived only as...

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the w...

Neuropsychological data and animal research suggest that hippocampus play both a critical role in episodic learning and memory, and an adaptive rol...

What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? This book seeks explanations...

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the w...

Although collective emotions have a long tradition in scientific inquiry, for instance in mass psychology and the sociology of rituals and social m...

In recent years consciousness has become a significant area of study in the cognitive sciences. The 'Frontiers of Consciousness' is a major interdi...

Blindsight is an unusual condition where the sufferer can respond to visual stimuli, while lacking any conscious feeling of having seen the stimuli...

Memory, attention, and decision-making are three major areas of psychology. They are frequently studied in isolation, and using a range of models t...

Language development remains one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive sciences. In recent years we have seen contributions to the deba...

Does listening to Mozart make us more intelligent? Is there such a thing as a gay gene? Does the size of the brain matter? Does the moon influence ...

This book proposes a novel view to explain how we as humans -- contrary to current robots -- can have the impression of consciously feeling things:...

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the w...

Adaptation phenomena provide striking examples of perceptual plasticity and offer valuable insight into the mechanisms of visual coding. The techni...

Language development remains one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive sciences. In recent years we have seen contributions to the deba...

Our visual system can process information at both conscious and unconscious levels. Understanding the factors that control whether a stimulus reach...

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding ...

In the 20 years since publication of John Sloboda's landmark volume The Musical Mind, music psychology has developed as a vibrant area of research ...

This cutting-edge book offers a theoretical account of the evolution of multiple memory systems of the brain. The authors conceptualize these memor...