A rich source of authoritative information that supports reading and study in the field of cognitive neuroscience, this two-volume handbook reviews the current state-of-the-science in all major areas of the field.

VOLUME 1; 1. Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience: Where are we now?; Kevin N. Ochsner and Stephen M. Kosslyn; Part One: Perception; 2. Representation of Objects; Kalanit Grill-Spector; 3. Representation of Spatial Relations; Bruno Laeng; 4. Top-down Effects in Visual Perception; Moshe Bar and Andreja Bubic; 5. Neural Underpinning of Object Mental Imagery, Spatial Imagery, and Motor Imagery; Gregoire Borst; 6. Looking at the Nose Through Human Behavior, and at Human Behavior Through the Nose; Roni Kahana and Noam Sobel; 7. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music; Petr Janata; 8. Audition; Josh H. McDermott; 9. Neural Correlates of the Development of Speech Perception and Comprehension; Angela D. Friederici and Claudia Mannel; 10. Perceptual Disorders; Josef Zihl; Part Two: Attention; 11. Varieties of Auditory Attention; Claude Alain, Stephen R. Arnott, and Benjamin J. Dyson; 12. Spatial Attention; Jeffrey Nicol; 13. Attention and Action; 14. The Visual Control of Action; Melvyn A. Goodale; 15. Development of Attention; M. Rosario Rueda; 16. Attentional Disorders; Laure Pisella, A. Blangero, C. Tilikete, D. Biotti, G. Rode, A. Vighetto, J.B. Mattingley, and Y. Rossetti; Part Three: Memory; 17. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Memory; Eiling Yee, Evangelia G. Chrysikou, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill; 18. Cognitive Neuroscience of Episodic Memory; Lila Davachi and Jared Danker; 19. Working Memory; Bradley R. Buchsbaum and Mark D'Esposito; 20. Motor Skill Learning; Rachael D. Seidler, Bryan L. Benson, Nathaniel B. Boyden, and Youngbin Kwak; 21. Memory Consolidation; John T. Wixted and Denise J. Cai; 22. Age-related Decline in Working Memory and Episodic Memory: Contributions of the Prefrontal Cortex and Medial Temporal Lobes; Sander Daselaar and Roberto Cabeza; 23. Memory Disorders; Barbara A Wilson and Jessica Fish; Part Four: Language; 24. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Written Language: The Neural Substrates of Reading and Writing; Kyrana Tsapkini and Argye E. Hillis; 25. Neural Systems Underlying Speech Perception; Sheila E. Blumstein and Emily B. Myers; 26. Multi-modal Speech Perception; Agnes Alsius, Ewen MacDonald, and Kevin Munhall; 27. The Organization of Conceptual Knowledge of Objects in the Human Brain; Bradford Z. Mahon and Alfonso Caramazza; 28. A Parallel Architecture Model of Language Processing; Ray Jackendoff; Part Five: Conclusion; 29. Epilogue to The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience: Where are we going?; Kevin N. Ochsner and Stephen M. Kosslyn; VOLUME 2; 1. Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience: Where are we now?; Kevin N. Ochsner and Stephen M. Kosslyn; Part One: Emotion; 2. Salience, State, and Expression: The Influence of Specific Aspects of Emotion on Attention and Perception; Rebecca M. Todd and Adam K. Anderson; 3. Emotion: Generation or Construction?; Jennifer M.B. Fugate, Kristen A. Lindquist, and Lisa Feldman Barrett; 4. The Neuroscience of Emotion Regulation: Basic Mechanisms and Their Role in Development, Aging, and Psychopathology; Jennifer A. Silvers, Jason T. Buhle, and Kevin N. Ochsner; 5. Impact of Emotion on Cognition; Luiz Pessoa; 6. Genetics and Emotion; Andreia Santos, Lukas Pezawas, and Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg; 7. Visceromotor Sensation and Control; Fred W. Mast; 8. Development of Emotion and Social Reasoning in Adolescence; Eveline A. Crone and Berna Guro?lu; Part Two: Self and Social Cognition; 9. Self-knowledge; Joseph M. Moran, William M. Kelley, and Todd F. Heatherton; 10. Perception of Nonverbal Cues; Aina Puce; 11. Face Recognition; Rankin W. McGugin and Isabel Gauthier; 12. The Cognitive and Neural Basis of Impression Formation; Alexander Todorov and Peter Mende-Siedlecki; 13. Theory of Mind: How Brains Think about Thoughts; Rebecca Saxe; 14. The Pleasures and Pains of Social Interactions: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective; Naomi I. Eisenberger and Keely A. Muscatell; 15. The Neural Underpinnings of the Experience of Empathy: Lessons for Psychopathy; Jean Decety; 16. Mirror Neurons and the Perception-Action Link; Vittorio Gallese; 17. The Early Development of the Brain Bases for Social Cognition; Tobias Grossmann and Mark H. Johnson; Part Three: Higher Cognitive Functions; 18. Conflict Monitoring and Cognitive Control; Nick Yeung; 19. Hierarchical Cognitive Control and the Functional Organization of the Frontal Cortex; David Badre; 20. Thinking; Kalina Christoff; 21. Decision Neuroscience; Maya U. Shankar and Samuel M. McClure; 22. Categorization; Bradley C. Love; 23. Expectancies and Beliefs: Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience; Lauren Y. Atlas and Tor D. Wager; 24. Cognitive Neuroscience of Numerical Cognition; Daniel Ansari and Stephan E. Vogel; 25. Psychopharmacology of Cognition; TW Robbins; Part Four: Clinical Applications; 26. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Chandan J. Vaidya; 27. PTSD; J. Douglas Bremner; 28. Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Phobia considered from a cognitive neuroscience perspective; Karina S. Blair and R.J.R. Blair; 29. The Neurobiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Samuel R. Chamberlain and Naomi A. Fineberg; Part Five: Conclusion; 30. Epilogue to The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience: Where are we going?; Kevin N. Ochsner and Stephen M. Kosslyn