Finding one's way around an environment and remembering the events that occur within it
are crucial cognitive abilities that have been linked to the hippocampus and medial temporal …

Declarative memory is usually described as consisting of two systems: semantic and
episodic memory. Between these two poles, however, may lie a third entity: personal …

'Working Memory, Thought, and Action'is the magnum opus of one of the most influential
cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volume on the model he created (with …

The mentalizing (theory of mind) system of the brain is probably in operation from ca. 18
months of age, allowing implicit attribution of intentions and other mental states. Between the …

Emotional events often attain a privileged status in memory. Cognitive neuroscientists have
begun to elucidate the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying emotional …

A consistent finding from functional neuroimaging studies of cognitive aging is an age-
related reduction in occipital activity coupled with increased frontal activity. This posterior …

Amnesic patients have a well established deficit in remembering their past experiences.
Surprisingly, however, the question as to whether such patients can imagine new …

Much progress has been made by cognitive neuroscientists in understanding the separate
roles of the medial temporal and prefrontal lobes in memory, but the way in which these …

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the
landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy …

Functional neuroimaging studies of autobiographical memory have grown dramatically in
recent years. These studies are important because they can investigate the neural correlates …