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Klappentext This volume features in-depth reviews of the major issues and emerging topics in cognitive neurosciences. The contributors are among the top researchers in the field. "NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit" "www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas"."" "ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (""www.nyas.org""). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http: //www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member." Zusammenfassung This volume features in-depth reviews of the major issues and emerging topics in cognitive neurosciences. The contributors are among the top researchers in the field. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions! please visit www. blackwellpublishing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Michael B. Miller and Alan Kingstone. 1. Genes! Cognition! and Communication: Insights from Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Dorothy V.M. Bishop. 2. The Evolution of Language: Michael C. Corballis. 3. In Search of a Unifying Theory of Complex Brain Evolution: Leah Krubitzer. 4. Autism: The Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) Theory: Simon Baron-Cohen. 5. The Social Neuroscience of Empathy: Tania Singer and Claus Lamm. 6. Embodied Cognition and The Simulation of Action to Understand Others: Scott T. Grafton. 7. Human Social Attention: A New Look at Past! Present! and Future Investigations: Elina Birmingham and Alan Kingstone. 8. Attention! Automaticity! and Awareness in Synaesthesia: Jason B. Mattingley. 9. The Role of Sleep in Cognition and Emotion: Matthew P. Walker. 10. Neurobiological Mechanisms of Placebo Responses. By Jon-Kar Zubieta. 11. Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music: Daniel J. Levitin & Anna K. Tirovolas. 12. Origins of Mathematical Intuitions: The Case of Arithmetic: Stanislas Dehaene. 13. What's New in Neuroimaging Methods?: Peter A. Bandettini. Index of Contributors. ...
