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1. The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience

   By Jamie Ward

   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...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Psychology Press
2. The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition

   By Jamie Ward

   Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and...

   Published January 3rd 2010 by Psychology Press
3. Cognitive Neuroscience

   Edited by Jamie Ward

   Series: Critical Concepts in Psychology

   Standing at the junction of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, cognitive neuroscience seeks to provide brain-based accounts of mental functions such as language, memory, perception, action, emotions, and decision-making. Its emergence as a coherent discipline came about relatively recently...

   Published June 29th 2009 by Routledge
4. The Frog Who Croaked Blue

   Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses

   By Jamie Ward

   As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of the cricket was red, and the croak of the frog was bluish. Edgar, like many other people, has synesthesia - a fascinating condition in which music can have color, words can...

   Published March 25th 2008 by Routledge