Pioneering Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

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Pioneering Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Authors: Richard Roche and Sean Commins

Published: October 2009 Pages: 136

eISBN: 9780335240357 | ISBN: 9780335233564

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Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1 Cognitive neuroscience: introduction and historical perspective

2 The malleable brain: neuroplasticity in the motor system

3 Monkey see, monkey do: frontal lobe cells that mimic observed actions

4 Cognition beyond perception: higher processing despite spatial neglect

5 Freeing the mind: brain communication that bypasses the body

6 ‘Seeing' emotion in blindsight: affect without awareness

7 Routes to memory: neuroplasticity in the hippocampal formation

8 Crossed wires in the brain: multisensory integration in synaesthesia

Appendices

Appendix 1 – Chapter 2 Modulation of Muscle Responses Evoked by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation During the Acquisition of New Fine Motor Skills

Appendix 2 – Chapter 3 Research report. Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions

Appendix 3 – Chapter 4 Processing of illusion of length in spatial hemineglect: a study of line bisection

Appendix 4 – Chapter 5 A spelling device for the paralysed

Appendix 5 – Chapter 6 Non-conscious recognition of affect in the absence of striate cortex

Appendix 6 – Chapter 7 Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers

Appendix 7 – Chapter 8 Coming Unbound: Disrupting Automatic Integration of Synesthetic Color and Graphemes by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Right Parietal Lobe

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