The Cognitive Neuroscience Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Cognitive Neuroscience books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.

Subjects covered by this Arena include: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, and Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision.

Cognitive Neuroscience News:

Cognitive Neuroscience: Special Issue Call for Papers

Cognitive Neuroscience: Special Issue Call for Papers

Cognitive Neuroscience is accepting submissions for the special issue The body in the brain: Body representations, processes and neural mechanisms, guest edited by Stephen R. Jackson (Nottingham), Laurel Buxbaum (Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, USA) and H. Branch Coslett (University of Pennsylvania, USA).

Manuscripts should be submitted by 20th December 2010 through our online submissions website.

As with regular submissions, there are no page or colour charges in the printed edition and manuscripts will be published online within 6 weeks of acceptance.

more information about the special issue (PDF)

New: The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition

New: The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated, full-color edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience.

This easy-to-follow book introduces neural structure and function, and the key methods and procedures of cognitive neuroscience, to help students understand how they can be used to shed light on the neural basis of cognition.

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New: Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook, 6th Edition

New: Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook, 6th Edition

Previous editions have established this best-selling student handbook by Michael W. Eysenck and Mark T. Keane as THE cognitive psychology textbook of choice, both for its academic rigour and its accessibility.

This sixth edition continues this tradition.

It has been substantially updated and revised to reflect new developments in the field, especially within cognitive neuroscience.

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Cognitive Neuroscience: A New Journal

Cognitive Neuroscience: A New Journal

We are now taking submissions for our new journal Cognitive Neuroscience.

Launching in 2010 and edited by Jamie Ward (University of Sussex, UK), and with no page or colour charges in the printed edition, it will fill an important niche by publishing shorter papers (up to 4000 words) with fast reviewing and rapid online publication (within 6 weeks of acceptance).

We hope that this exciting new journal will become an important focal point for researchers in this field.

Special Issue Call For Papers

Title: Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness

Guest editors: Anil Seth (Sussex) and Geraint Rees (UCL)

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Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

We are pleased to announce in 2009 the publication of Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, a new Special Section of the journal Language and Cognitive Processes.

Call for Papers: if you have an article on any aspect of how the development of cognitive neuroscience methodologies has impacted the empirical scope of experimental language studies, we would like to see it! Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal's Manuscript Central site, clearly marked for Cognitive Neuroscience of Language.

Download the PDF flyer for more details on this exciting development