Cognitive Psychology Arena

The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition

• By Jamie Ward.

Published January 2010

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and…
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Cognitive Neuroscience

• Edited by Jamie Ward.

Published June 2009

Standing at the junction of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, cognitive neuroscience seeks to provide brain-based accounts of mental functions such as language, memory, perception, action, emotions, and decision-making. Its emergence as a coherent discipline came about relatively recently…
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Letter Recognition: From Perception to Representation

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Matthew Finkbeiner, and Max Coltheart.

Published June 2009

Detailed computational modelling of reading has been much pursued in the past twenty years, and several specific computational models of visual word recognition and reading aloud have been developed. These models offer computational accounts of many aspects of reading, but all have neglected the…
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Integrative Approaches to Perception and Action

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Nicola Bruno, and P. Paolo Battaglini.

Published December 2008

The special issue aims at providing a forum for empirical and theoretical research on the integration of perceptual and motor processes in the human mind. Integrative approaches to perception and action have proved fruitful in several areas, including large-scale questions pertaining to the…
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The Mental Lexicon

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Michele Miozzo.

Published August 2008

This special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology presents a series of neuropsychological and neuro-imagining studies investigating the mental lexicon – its functional organization, its access in speech production and comprehension, and its neural underpinnings.…
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Neuropsychological Research

A Review

• Edited by Peter Mariën, and Jubin Abutalebi.

Published February 2008

In a broad sense, neuropsychology stands for the branch of brain sciences that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to specific cognitive and psychological processes. The idea of developing a research field somewhere between neurology and cognitive psychology…
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Cognitive Reserve

Theory and Applications

• Edited by Yaakov Stern.

Published October 2006

Cognitive reserve has emerged as a powerful concept for interpreting individual differences in susceptibility to, and recovery from, brain injury or pathology. Underlying cognitive reserve is the idea that individual differences in how cognitive tasks are mediated in the brain allow some people to…
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Inhibitory After-Effects in Spatial Processing: Experimental and Theoretical Issues on Inhibition of Return

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Paolo Bartolomeo, and Juan Lupiáñez.

Published October 2006

When responding to a suddenly appearing stimulus, we are slower and/or less accurate when the stimulus occurs at the same location of a previous event, as compared to when it appears in a new location. This phenomenon, often called Inhibition of Return (IOR), has fostered a huge amount of research…
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Mild Cognitive Impairment

International Perspectives

• Edited by Holly A. Tuokko, and David F. Hultsch.

Published September 2006

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) has been identified as an important clinical transition between normal aging and the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Since treatments for AD are most likely to be most effective early in the course of the disease, MCI has become a topic of great importance…
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An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Processes and Disorders

• By David Groome.

Published August 2006

David Groome with Nicola Brace, Hazel Dewart, Graham Edgar, Helen Edgar, Anthony Esgate, Richard Kemp, Graham Pike, and Tom Stafford. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students. It covers all the key areas of…
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