Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology

A growing literature, on humans and animals, documents linkages between social integration and affiliative relationships and a variety of health an...

Lazarus draws on his four decades of pioneering research to bring readers the first book to move beyond both clinical jargon and "feel-good" popula...

This book, a member of the Series in Affective Science, is a unique interdisciplinary sequence of articles on the cognitive neuroscience of emotion...

This work presents a systematic analysis of the psychological phenomena associated with the concept of mental representations--also referred to as ...

In Passion and Reason, Lazarus draws on his four decades of pioneering research to bring readers the first book to move beyond both clinical jargon...

Greenspan argues that dilemmas may be regarded as possible consequences of a set of social rules designed to be simple enough to be teachable. Wher...

Response times are a fascinating source of information on how the mind is organized - the time taken to carry out an action tells us something abou...

This book reviews recent research on the ability of human listeners to discern changes in the shape of complex acoustic spectra--what is known as a...

The topic of this book is mental representation, a theoretical concept that lies at the core of cognitive science. Together with the idea that thin...

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all wi...

Clinical Cultural Neuroscience aims to provide clinicians and researchers with an overview of contemporary topics relevant to the study of culture ...

How can I improve my memory? Do my emotions affect my memories? How will my memory change as I get older?The Psychology of Memory provides a unique...

The creation and consolidation of a memory can rest on the integration of any number of possibly disparate features and contexts - colour, sound, e...

The description for this book, Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought, will be forthcoming.

We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience. E...

What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to ...

The developing infant can accomplish all important perceptual tasks that an adult can, albeit with less skill or precision. Through infant percepti...

We perceive and understand our environment using many sensory systems-vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and proprioception. These multiple sens...

Galileo is known as a pioneer of science - especially of mechanics and astronomy - but far less attention has been paid to his work on the senses g...