Preparing students for a career in cognitive neuroscience may be especially challenging due to the expense and complexity of many types of cognitive neuroscience technologies. However, it is possible to train students in cognitive neuroscience at a primarily undergraduate university (PUI) in both the classroom and the laboratory. First, we propose specific methods that can be used in the classr...

Social cognitive neuroscience examines social phenomena and processes using cognitive neuroscience research tools such as neuroimaging and neuropsychology. This review examines four broad areas of research within social cognitive neuroscience: (a) understanding others, (b) understanding oneself, (c) controlling oneself, and (d) the processes that occur at the interface of self and others. In ad...

structure. All three groups displayed negative transfer to random material in block 7, and positive transfer to block 8, which is constructed as blocks 1–6. The crucial test of transfer involves new material with different surface structure but the same abstract structure in blocks 9 and 10. The schizophrenic group showed no evidence of use of the abstract information in blocks 9 and 10, as was...

Recent neuroimaging studies have provided evidence for localized perceptual speci®city in the processing of human voice stimuli, paralleling the speci®city for human faces. This study attempted to delineate the perceptual features of human voices yielding selective processing, and to characterize its time-course. Electrophysiological recordings revealed a positive potential peaking at 320 ms po...

When in a bustling, raucous environment filled with noise, how can we still hear our name being called from across the room? How do you know when looking at a woman standing in front of you that she is your mother? Why is the written word so perplexing for some individuals to grasp? And what are the theoretical models, neural mechanisms, and anatomical substrates underlying such capabilities? T...

How is it that we can perceive, learn and be aware of the world? The development of new techniques for studying large-scale brain activity, together with insights from computational modeling and a better understanding of cognitive processes, have opened the door for collaborative research that could lead to major advances in our understanding of ourselves.