Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology

The publication in 1957 of S.S. Stevens' famous paper, On the psychophysical law, ignited a controversy which has continued ever since relating to ...

Vision research is one of the largest and most active areas within brain research. Psychologists, neuroscientists, opthamologists and optometrists,...

This book proposes a new, unified view of the mind which integrates the insights of philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Through a det...

Gestures are a special sort of action. They communicate the individual's moods and desires to the world and they operate under different psychologi...

For thousands of years, many Western thinkers have assumed that emotions are, at best, harmless luxuries, and at worst outright obstacles to intell...

Cognitive neuroscience has been the most productive, and arguably the most exciting area of growth in psychology and neuroscience over recent years...

The capacity to represent and think about time, and the capacity to recollect the past are two of the most fundamental and least understood aspects...

Can we learn without consciousness? When the eminent neuropsychologist, Lawrence Weiskrantz first coined the term 'blindsight' to describe a condit...

The term 'episodic memory' refers to our memory for unique, personal experiences, that we can date at some point in our past - our first day at sch...

Humans, like other primates, are intensely social creatures. One of the main functions of our brains is to enable us to be as skilful in social int...

Many organisms possess multiple sensory systems, such as vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The possession of such multiple ways of sensing ...

Reissued in 1997 with corrections and a new Afterword, this book fully explores for the first time an idea common to Plato and Aristotle, which uni...

For psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists interested in 'attention', the issue of the 'limits' of our attentional mechanisms is one of great ...

In the thirty years since its discovery by Terje Lomo and Tim Bliss, Long Term Potentiation (LTP) has become one of the most extensively studied to...

Sleep has long been a topic of fascination for artists and scientists. Why do we sleep? What function does sleep serve? Why do we dream? What signi...

Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Lik...

Music offers an opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like lang...

Colour has long been a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers. In one sense, colours are in the mind of the beholder, in another...

Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of researchers in many arenas - clinicians, psychologists interested...

The brain is a cognitive organ, and regions of the brain that traverse brainstem and cortical sites orchestrate the expression of bodily sensibilit...

Gratitude, like other positive emotions, has inspired many theological and philosophical writings, but it has inspired very little vigorous, empiri...

Springing from an unprecedented meeting between the sons and daughters of the Holocaust and the children of Nazis, Justice Matters: Legacies of the...

The purpose of this contribution to the Counterpoints series is to compare and contrast different conceptions of working memory. This is one of the...

Appraisal theory has become one of the most active aproaches in the domain of emotion psychology. The appraisal process consists of the subjective ...