Published March, 2008
By Jamie Ward
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Everyone will be closely acquainted with a few people who have synesthesia but you may not yet know who they are because, until very recently, it was largely hidden and unknown. Now science is uncovering its secrets and the findings are leading to a radical rethink about how our senses are organized.

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Published March, 2008
By Mark L. Latash
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Synergy dicusses a general problem in biology: the lack of an adequate language for formulating biological specific problems. Written for an inquisitive reader who is not necessarily a professional in the area of movement studies, this book describes the recent progress in the control and coordination of human movement.

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Published March, 2008
By Sheri Mizumori and Sheri J. Y. Mizumori
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published March, 2008
By Kevin Fox, Thomas Woolsey, Asaf Keller and Egbert Welker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Fox describes current knowledge on the barrel cortex, covering development, sensory processing and plasticity This single authored text has a uniform style from chapter to chapter, avoiding duplication and allowing cross-referencing of sections, a feature lacking in comparable texts on this topic. An invaluable reference for graduates and researchers.

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Published March, 2008
By Peter Politser
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Everyone who wants to understand the research in the neuroeconomics or use its methods should read this book. Its accessible text, along with an extensive glossary, will guide those with little economic or neuroscience background, and make the book an excellent supplement for courses on neuroscience and decision making.

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Published March, 2008
By Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper and Jochen Schacht
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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The past decade has brought great advances in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying auditory pathologies. It brings together the basic and clinical sciences very nicely in that while most chapters are written by basic scientists, each topic has a pretty direct clinical application or implication.

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Published March, 2008
By Thomas F. Shipley and Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This book is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. It provides a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields.

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Published March, 2008
By Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published February, 2008
By Stefano Cappa, Jubin Abutalebi, Jean-Francois Demonet, Paul Fletcher, Peter Garrard and Stefano F. Cappa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Many clinicians within neurology remain unaware of the significant advances that have taken place in the field of cognitive neuroscience in the last decades, and how these might affect clinical practice. This book provides an introduction to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of the clinical practice of neurology.

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Published February, 2008
By Tim Shallice, Jon Driver and Patrick Haggard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Mental Processes in the Human Brain provides an integrative overview of the rapid advances and future challenges in understanding the neurobiological basis of mental processes that are characteristically human. With chapters from leading figures in the brain sciences, it will be essential for all those in the cognitive and brain sciences.

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