Cognitive Neuroscience Arena

Goal-Directed Behavior

• Edited by Henk Aarts, and Andrew Elliot.

Published October 2011

This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a series of topics that are of critical importance to understanding the social-cognitive aspects of goal-directed behavior. In each chapter, the authors offer…
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The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience

• By Jamie Ward.

Published October 2011

Social neuroscience is an expanding field which, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by the…
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Elucidating the Neural Basis of the Self

A Special Issue of Neurocase

• Edited by Bruce Miller, and Indre Viskontas.

Published August 2011

In this special issue, leading neuroscientists and neurologists present comprehensive review papers and empirical studies on the topic of the neural basis of self-identification. From philosophical definitions to single-case studies, the articles provide the reader with a broad view of the self in…
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Neuroscience of Decision Making

• Edited by Oshin Vartanian, and David R. Mandel.

Published March 2011

The intersection between the fields of behavioral decision research and neuroscience has proved to be fertile ground for interdisciplinary research. Whereas the former is rich in formalized models of choice, the latter is rife with techniques for testing behavioral models at the brain level. As a…
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Developmental Social Neuroscience

A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience

• Edited by Philip David Zelazo, and Tomas Paus.

Published November 2010

This Special Issue showcases some of the latest and best research in an important emerging field, developmental social neuroscience, which is focused on the nature and development of the mechanisms involved in socially relevant human behavior. Recent work on the neural correlates of empathy,…
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Grounding Sociality

Neurons, Mind, and Culture

• Edited by Gün R. Semin, and Gerald Echterhoff.

Published November 2010

This volume concerns the longstanding intellectual puzzle of how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It explores how humans take each other into account, coordinate their actions, and are able to share their inner states and to communicate.…
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Social Psychology of Visual Perception

• Edited by Emily Balcetis, and G. Daniel Lassiter.

Published April 2010

This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in them with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is wrong: people’s view of their world…
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Neural Correlates of Deception

A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience

• Edited by Giorgio Ganis, and Julian Keenan.

Published December 2009

Deception, also known as "lying", is a pervasive and fundamental social behavior in which a person attempts to persuade another to accept as true what the deceiver believes to be untrue. Because of its essential role in our social life, it is important for social neuroscience to reveal the inner…
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Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience

• Edited by Philip David Zelazo, Michael Chandler and Eveline Crone.

Published September 2009

This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born…
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The Mirror Neuron System

A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience

• Edited by Christian Keysers, and Luciano Fadiga.

Published November 2008

Mirror neurons are premotor neurons, originally discovered in the macaque brain , that discharge both during execution of goal-directed actions and during the observation of similar actions executed by another individual. They therefore ‘mirror’ others’ actions on the observer's motor repertoire.…
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