The potential for cognitive neuroscience to shed light on social behaviour is more & more acknowledged. This text offers coverage of current research into neural substrates of social interactions, the cognitive neuroscience of social cognition & human disorders of social behaviour & cognition.

Episodic memory is the name of the kind of memory that records personal experiences instead of the mere remembering of impersonal facts and rules. This type of memory is extremely sensitive to ageing and disease so an understanding of the mechanisms of episodic memory might lead to the development of therapies suited to improve memory in some patient populations. Episodic memory is unique in that it includes an aspect of self-awareness and helps us to remember who we are in terms of what we did and what we have been passed through and what we should do in the future.

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The potential for cognitive neuroscience to shed light on social behaviour is more & more acknowledged. This text offers coverage of current research into neural substrates of social interactions, the cognitive neuroscience of social cognition & human disorders of social behaviour & cognition.