Psychology in the Brain: Integrative Cognitive Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780230553255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 316 str.

Leon Kenemans

Opis

Taking an integrated approach to cognitive neuroscience, this is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers. Offering original insight through its unique structure, it explains why we need to understand the brain in order to understand psychology.

Spis treści

Principles and Methods Perception and Action Perception and Attention Attention and Action Perception and Memory Attention and Memory Action and Memory Perception, Attention and Emotion Emotion and Action Emotion and Memory Social Cognition and Communication.

O autorze

Leon Kenemans is Professor of Biopsychology and Psychopharmacology at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His research interests include attention and affective processes, and action control, and he has published in the areas of working memory and the effects of alcohol on the ability to detect and respond to unexpected events. 

Nick Ramsey is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University Medical Hospital of Utrecht, and Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He conducts research on mechanisms of human brain function, advanced techniques for imaging brain function, and on plasticity in brain function in people with brain disorders such as tumors and epilepsy, amongst other areas.