About the Book
Cognitive neuroscience is the interdisciplinary study of how cognitive and intellectual functions are processed and represented within the brain, which is critical to building understanding of core psychological and behavioural processes such as learning, memory, behaviour, perception, and consciousness. Understanding these processes not only offers relevant fundamental insights into brain-behavioural relations, but may also lead to actionable knowledge that can be applied in the clinical treatment of patients with various brain-related disabilities.
This Handbook focusses on the foundational principles, methods, and underlying systems in cognitive and systems neuroscience, as well as examining cutting-edge methodological advances and innovations.
Containing 34 original, state of the art contributions from leading experts in the field, this Handbook is essential reading for researchers and students of cognitive psychology, as well as scholars across the fields of neuroscientific, behavioural and health sciences.
Part 1: Background Considerations
Part 2: Neuroscientific Substrates and Principles
Part 3: Neuroanatomical Brain Systems
Part 4: Neural Dynamics and Processes
Part 5: Sensory-Perceptual Systems and Cognition
Part 6: Methodological Advances
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Cognitive Neuroscience: Basic principles, systems and methods - Gregory J. Boyle, Georg Northoff, Nadia Bolognini, Aron K. Barbey, Marjan Jahanshahi, Álvaro Pascual-Leone, and Barbara J. Sahakian
PART I BACKGROUND CONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 2: Historical, empirical, and philosophical bases for cognitive neuroscience - Georg Northoff, Philipp Klar
Chapter 3: Aging brain changes across the lifespan - Lídia Vaqué-Alcázar, Anja Soldan, David Bartrés-Faz
Chapter 4: Innovation pathways, real-life neuroscience startups and their applications - Tiago Lazzaretti, Paulo Ricardo de Melo, Anna Marduy, Rafaella Rogatto
PART II NEUROSCIENTIFIC SUBSTRATES AND PRINCIPLES
Chapter 5: Neural processes and activity: Cultural neuroscience - Joan Y. Chiao
Chapter 6: Role of neuroglia in cognition - Alexei Verkhratsky, Alexey Semyanov, Arthur Butt, Olga Garaschuk
Chapter 7: Cognitive Neurogenetics - Jack van Honk, Zhang Li, Norihiro Sadato, Joan Y. Chiao
Chapter 8: Dopamine system and cognitive functioning across adult lifespan - Saana M. Korkki, Lars Nyberg, Marc Guitart-Masip, Goran Papenberg, Alireza Salami, Nina Karalija, Lars Bäckman
Chapter 9: Neurotransmission and neuromodulation of recognition memory: Novelty vs. familiarity - Daniel Osorio-Gómez, María-Isabel Miranda, Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni, Kioko Guzmán-Ramos,
Chapter 10: Neurotransmission and neuromodulation of memory: Intensity and valence - María-Isabel Miranda, Kioko Guzmán-Ramos, Daniel Osorio-Gómez, Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni
Chapter 11: Neuromodulator adenosine A2A receptor control of cognition - Jiang-Fan Chen, Yan Li
Chapter 12: Hormonal influences on cognition - Linda Becker, Nicolas Rohleder
PART III NEUROANATOMICAL BRAIN SYSTEMS
Chapter 13: Modeling of basal ganglia structure and function - Anneke Alkemade, Bernadette C. M. van Wijk, Birte U. Forstmann
Chapter 14: Cerebellum: Advances in Understanding of Cerebellar Functions - Mario Manto
Chapter 15: Amygdaloid complex - Hans Joachim Markowitsch, Jens Borgelt, Angelica Staniloiu
Chapter 16: Hippocampal formation - Rosanna Olsen, Mrinmayi Kulkarni
Chapter 17: Cerebral lateralization and hemispheric specialization - Luis M. García Marín, Zuriel Ceja, Miguel E. Rentería, Albert Galaburda
PART IV NEURAL DYNAMICS AND PROCESSES
Chapter 18: Mirror Mechanism in Cognition - Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi
Chapter 19: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Brain Rhythms - Martin Seeber, Thomas Koenig, Christoph M. Michel
Chapter 20: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms: Alpha Rhythm and Alertness/Sleepiness - Arcady Putilov
PART V SENSORY-PERCEPTUAL SYSTEMS AND COGNITION
Chapter 21: Auditory processing - Erich Schröger, Alexandra Bendixen
Chapter 22: Vestibular processing in cognition - Paul C. J. Taylor
Chapter 23: Somatosensory processing - Jon H. Kaas, Leah A. Krubitzer, Hui-Xin Qi, Jamie Reed
Chapter 24: Motor control: Response preparation, initiation and inhibition - Vishal Rawji, John Rothwell, Marjan Jahanshahi
Chapter 25: Olfactory and Gustatory Sensation-Perception - Anna Kristina Hernandez, Laiquan Zou, Thomas Hummel
Chapter 26: Interoception and thermoreception - Hugo Critchley, Yoko Nagai, Lisa Quadt
Chapter 27: Peripersonal Space Representation: Neural Bases, Properties and Functional Significance - Claudio Brozzoli, Nadia Bolognini, Alessandro Zanini, Alessandro Farnè
PART VI METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES
Chapter 28: Neural recordings and time series analyses - Randolph F. Helfrich, Robert T. Knight
Chapter 29: Advances in Psychophysical techniques - Irina G. Skotnikova, Alexei N. Gusev, Alexander M. Chernorizov
Chapter 30: Revolutions in "wet" neurobiology - John Bickle, David J. Parker
Chapter 31: Human Brain Project and Beyond - Jorge Mejias, Katrin Amunts, Jan G. Bjaalie, Sander M. Bohte, Alain Destexhe, Lars Muckli, Pier S. Paolucci, Martin Pearson, Cyriel M. A. Pennartz
Chapter 32: Advances in brain imaging - Sicong Tu, William Huynh, Matthew Kiernan
Chapter 33: Novel approaches to large-scale data in neuroimaging studies - Matt Tharp, Shannon L. Risacher, Paula Bice, Paul M. Thompson, Andrew J. Saykin, Meichen Yu
Chapter 34: Advancing cognitive neuroscience - Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Tor D. Wager
About the Author :
Professor Boyle has spent over three decades undertaking quantitative research in the field of psychometrics, as related to the measurement of individual differences in
personality, intelligence, and motivation, as well as undertaking studies within the fields of neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and educational psychology. In more recent years, he has applied his extensive research skills to studies within the broad fields of medical/health psychology, and has undertaken many studies within the
area of women′s health. Lately, he has focused his attention more on research topics pertaining to men′s health. Georg Northoff is Canada Research Chair for Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics at the University of Ottawa/Canada. He made major contribution in neuroscience on the neural correlates of mental features like consciousness, self, mind wandering and mental disorders having discovered their spatiotemporal mechanisms bridging the gap of neural and mental activity. This led him to develop an integrated brain-mind model for which Spatiotemporal Neuroscience is the key discipline.
Aron K. Barbey is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is chair of the Intelligent Systems Research Theme, leader of the Intelligence, Learning, and Plasticity Initiative, and director of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Dr. Barbey’s research investigates the neural mechanisms of human intelligence and decision making, with particular emphasis on enhancing these functions through cognitive neuroscience, physical fitness, and nutritional intervention. His research has been supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the White House BRAIN Initiative, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and private industry (Abbott Nutrition, Google Brain, and PepsiCo). Dr. Barbey has received multiple research awards and is editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity. He earned his doctorate in Psychology from Emory University and completed a research fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health.
Felipe Fregni, MD, PhD, MMSc, MPH is the director of Spaulding Neuromodulation Center. He is an Associate Professor of PM&R at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology. He is also the course director for the HMS continuing medical education course, Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, a 6-month distance learning course. It focuses on promoting collaboration and bringing clinical research education to practicing clinicians worldwide. Currently, his research is focused on understanding neuroplastic changes associated with conditions such as chronic pain, Parkinson’s disease, and stroke, using non-invasive brain stimulation as an investigative tool for such aims. In addition, his laboratory is comprised of about 15 research fellows and staff, and is a trai ning center for clinical research and neuromodulation methodology. Dr. Fregni’s laboratory is funded by several sponsors including NIH, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, CIMIT, and the RJG Foundation.
Barbara J Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. She is also an Honorary Clinical Psychologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She holds a PhD and a DSc from the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and was President of the International Neuroethics Society (2014-2016) and the British Association for Psychopharmacology (2012-2014). In 2016, she was recipient of the Robert Sommer Award and the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) Ethics Prize. Sahakian is also a Member of the International Expert Jury for the 2017 Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung Prize dedicated to the biological basis of psychiatric disorders. She is co-author of ‘Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’ (Oxford University Press, 2013) and of ‘Sex, Lies and Brain Scans. How fMRI reveals what really goes on in our minds’ (OUP, 2017). She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics (OUP, 2011) and Translational Neuropsychopharmacology (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences) (Springer International Publishing, 2016).
Sahakian has an international reputation in the fields of psychopharmacology, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging and neuroethics. She is perhaps best known for her work on ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ cognitive deficits in depression and early detection and early treatment with cholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer’s disease. She has over 400 publications in high impact scientific journals. Sahakian co-invented the neuropsychological CANTAB tests. Sahakian has contributed to Neuroscience and Mental Health Government Policy and has spoken on resilience, brain health, neuroscience and mental health at the World Economic Forum, Davos, 2014. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Brain Research.
