The study of patients to infer normal brain function has a long tradition in neurology and
psychology. More recently, the motor system has been subject to quantitative and …

The existence of so-called 'basic emotions' and their defining attributes represents a long
lasting and yet unsettled issue in psychology. Recently, neuroimaging evidence, especially …

An integral part of human language is the capacity to extract meaning from spoken and
written words, but the precise relationship between brain representations of information …

In this debate with Lisa Feldman Barrett, I defend a view of emotions as biological functional
states. Affective neuroscience studies emotions in this sense, but it also studies the …

The authors address the assumptions and methods that allow us to turn observations into
causal knowledge, and use even incomplete causal knowledge in planning and prediction …

As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can
be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive …

This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a
twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image …

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on
prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Representation of the visual and spatial properties of our environment is a pivotal
requirement of everyday cognition. We can mentally represent the visual form of objects. We …