PSYC2518
Module Reading List

Lecture 1: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Methods

Books (choose one of the following options):

• Jamie Ward. (2010) The student’s guide to Cognitive Neuroscience. Psychology Press. 2nd edition. (NB this is a great alternative to the Purve’s textbook). OR
• Principles of cognitive neuroscience, 2nd edition by Purves et al (2013): Chapter 2.

Papers:

• Bandettini, P. A. (2009). What's new in neuroimaging methods? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1156: 260–293. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716071/.

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Lecture 2: Fundamentals of Human Neuroscience

Books (choose one of the following options):

• The Human Nervous System: Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd edition by Purves et al (2013).
• Chapter 1: Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1st edition by Purves et al. (2008) OR
• Kandel, E., Schwartz, J., & Jessell, T. (2000). Principles of Neural Science . New York: McGraw-Hill. Ch. 1, The Brain and Behavior, pp. 5-19. Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
• Kolb, B., & Whishaw, I.Q. (2003). Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology . New York: Worth Publishers. 

Available online via Korext until 30 June. Kolb: Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, Direct link https://app.kortext.com/borrow/3979

The title will only be available via the direct link, you can’t find it using the Library search.

• Nolte, J. (1999). The Human Brain: An introduction to its functional anatomy. St. Louis, MI: Mosby Inc.
• Zeki, S. (1993). Functional specialization in human cerebral cortex. A vision of the brain . Boston: Blackwell, Ch. 2, pp. 17-21.

Papers:

• Geschwind, N. (1979). Specializations of the human brain. Scientific American. , 241, 158-168.
• Petrides, M., & Pandya, D.N. (2009). Distinct parietal and temporal pathways to the homologues of Broca’s area in the monkey. PLoS biology.
• The brain from top to bottom [blog]. Available from: http://thebrain.mcgill.ca

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Lecture 3: Functional Lateralization in the Brain

Books (choose one of the following options):

• Chapter 11: Kolb, B., & Whishaw, I.Q. (2003). Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology . New York: Worth Publishers. Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (fad 23/04/2020) 

Papers:

• Gazzaniga, M.S. (1967). The split brain in man. Scientific American. , 217, 24-29.
• Gazzaniga, M.S. (1998). The split brain revisited. Scientific American. , 279, 50-55.

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Lecture 4: Neuroscience of Language

Books (choose one of the following options):

• Chapter 12: Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd edition by Purves et al. (2013). OR
• Chapters 20, 21: Principles of cognitive neuroscience, 1st edition by Purves et al. (2008)
• Kandel, E., Schwartz, J., & Jessell, T. (2000). Language and the Aphasias. Principles of Neural Science . New York: McGraw-Hill. Ch. 59, pp. 1169-1187. OR
• Kolb, B., & Whishaw, I.Q. (2003). The Origins of Language. Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology. New York: Worth Publishers. Ch. 19, pp. 483-515.

Papers:

• Dronkers, N.F. (1996). A new brain region for coordinating speech articulation. Nature., 384, 159-161.
• Geschwind, N. (1970). The organization of language and the brain. Science., 170, 940-944.
• Winner, E. & Gardner, H. (1977). The comprehension of metaphor in brain-damaged patients. Brain. , 100, 717-729.

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Lecture 5: Motivation in Human Appetite

Paper:

• Berthoud HR & Morrison C (2008) The brain, appetite and obesity. Annual review of psychology. , 59: 55-92.

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Lecture 6: Attention and Memory in the brain

Books:

• Chapter 6 and 7: The control of Attention in the Principles of cognitive neuroscience by Purves et al (2013).

Chapter 8 and 9: Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience by Purves et al. Chapters on Short and Long-term memory (any addition).

Papers

• Corbetta, Shulman (2002). Control of goal-directed and stimulus driven attention in the brain. Nature reviews : neuroscience. , 3:201-215.
• Sarter, Givens and Bruno (2001) The cognitive neuroscience of sustained attention: where top-down meets bottom-up. Brain research : Brain research reviews. , 35: 146-160.

Website

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_and_Cognitive_Neuroscience/Memory

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Lecture 7: Decision making

Books

• Chapter 14: Decision making in the Principles of cognitive neuroscience by Purves et al (any addition).

Papers

• Heekeren, Marrett and Underleider (2008) The neural systems that mediate human perceptual decision making. Nature reviews : neuroscience. , 9: 467-479.
• Sterzer, P (2016) Moving forward in perceptual decision making. PNAS, 13(21): 5771-5773.

Website

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_and_Cognitive_Neuroscience/Reasoning_and_Decision_Making

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Lecture 8: Emotional Processing in the Brain

Books (choose one of the following):

• Chapter 10: Purves et al, (2013) Principles of cognitive neuroscience pp. 319-357. OR

• Chapter 11: Carlson (2010) Physiology of Behavior, Tenth Edition, Pearson Publishers pp. 360-372.

Papers:

• Damasio, A. R. (1996). The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological sciences. , 351, 1413-20.
• Bechara, A., Damasio, A.R., Damasio, H., Anderson, S.W. (1994). Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex. Cognition : international journal of cognitive science. , 50, 7-15.

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Lecture 9: The Ageing Brain and Memory

Online Book:

• Great link to a textbook online (by Glisky E.L.): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3885/?report=reader#_ch1_s1_
• Papers
• Park and Reuter-Lorenz (2009) Annual review of psychology. , 60:173-196.
• Grady (2008) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. , 1124:127-144.

This list was last updated on 26/01/2021