Published November, 2008
By Andy Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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What is embodiment and why does it matter for understanding the mind? Can the machinery of mind extend beyond the head? With a substantial Foreword by David Chalmers, Supersizing the Mind is essential reading for all those interested in embodied cognition, the extended mind, and the likely shape of twenty-first century cognitive scientific explanation.

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Published November, 2008
By Steven J. Luck and Andrew Hollingworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Visual Memory presents a state-of-the-art view of research on visual memory that both summarizes current knowledge and presents new perspectives. It covers the major memory systems, including iconic memory, visual short-term memory, and visual long-term memory, with extensive links to eye movements, scene processing, object recognition, and neural mechanisms.

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Published November, 2008
By John A. Bargh, Peter M. Gollwitzer and Ezequiel Morsella
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This 'bible' of action research brings together the current thinking of eminent researchers in the domains of motor control, behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, biology, as well as cognitive, developmental, social, and motivational psychology. It represents a determined multidisciplinary effort, spanning across various areas of science as well as national boundaries.

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Published November, 2008
By Ernst Poppel, Eduard Kraft, Balazs Gulyas and Ernst Poeppel
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: On Thinking
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The advances in neuroimaging technologies have led to substantial progress in understanding the neural mechanisms of cognitive functions. It provides an insight into the state of the art and the potentials, but also the limitations of current neuroimaging methods for studying cognitive functions.

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Published November, 2008
By Carlo Cristini and Alberto Ghilardi
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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Il volume raccoglie in una prospettiva interdisciplinare vari contributi sulle emozioni e sull'apprendimento, sul sentire e sul pensare e puo essere di aiuto a medici, psicologi, professionisti della salute, ricercatori, studenti e a tutte quelle persone a cui stanno a cuore l'unitarieta e le speranze dell'essere umano.

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Published October, 2008
By Pawel J. Jastreboff and Jonathan W. P. Hazell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book presents a definitive description and justification for the Jastreboff neurophysiological model of tinnitus, outlining the essentials of Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (the highly successful treatment arising from it), reviewing the research literature, and providing an expert critique of other current therapeutic practices.

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Published October, 2008
By Jonathan Cole and Henrietta Spalding
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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We are defined by our faces. They give identity but, equally importantly, reveal our moods and emotions through facial expression. So what happens when the face cannot move? This book is about people who live with Moebius Syndrome, which has as its main feature an absence of movement of the muscles of facial expression from birth.

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Published October, 2008
By Antonius M. VanDongen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience
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The NMDA receptor plays a critical role in the development of the central nervous system and in adult neuroplasticity, learning, and memory. This book brings together virtually various players in this field.

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Published October, 2008
By Jerry J. Buccafusco and Jerry Buccafusco
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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Presents various behavioral approaches in animal subjects. This book features material on the relevance of transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer's disease. It discusses behavioral methods for assessing the cognitive impairment associated with major psychotic disorders.

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Published October, 2008
By Laurence Garey, Jacques Neirynck and Laurence J. Garey
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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What does it mean that my mind is free in time and space, and yet I am imprisoned in a body that is doomed to disappear? What hope does reasearch hold out?Recent discoveries about the brain allow us to ask such questions more pointedly, hoping to define more clearly the relations of the brain with the mind, of man with his body.

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