1. Introducing cognitive neuroscience -- Cognitive psychology -- 2. Introducing the brain -- Structure and functions of the neuron -- Gross organization of the brain -- The cerebral cortex -- The subcortex -- the midbrain and hindbrain -- 3. The electrophysiological brain -- Neural representations: single-cell recordings -- Electroencephalography and event-related potentials -- Mental chronometry in electrophysiology and cognitive psychology -- Magnetoencephalography -- 4. The imagined brain -- Structural imaging -- Functional imaging -- From image to cognitive theory: cognitive subtraction methodology -- Event-related versus blocked designs -- Is "Big Brother" round the corner? -- 5. The lesioned brain -- Dissociations and associations -- Single case studies -- Group studies and lesion-deficit analysis -- Animal models in neuropsychology -- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) -- 6. The seeing brain -- From eye to brain -- Cortical blindness and "blindsight^^^^^

Functional specialization of the visual cortex -- Recognizing objects -- Recognizing faces -- Vision imagined -- 7. The spatial brain -- Feature-integration theory -- Space, attention and the parietal lobes -- Losing space: seeing one object at a time -- Losing half of space: spatial frames and neglect -- Remembering space: does the hippocampus store a long-term map of the environment? -- 8. The acting brain -- Basic cognitive framework for movement and action -- Role of the frontal lobes in movement and action -- Planning actions: the SAS model -- Ownership and awareness of actions -- Action comprehension and imitation -- Parietofrontal circuits for sensory-motor transformation -- Using objects and tools -- Preparation and execution of actions -- 9. The remembering brain -- Short-term and working memory -- Different types of long-term memory -- Amnesia -- Memory storage and consolidation: time-limited roe for the hippocampus? -- Theories of remembering, knowing and forgetting^^^^

Role of the prefrontal cortex in long-term memory -- Constructive memory and memory distortions -- 10. The hearing brain -- The nature of sound -- From ear to brain -- Basic processing of auditory information -- Music perception -- Voice perception -- Speech perception -- 11. The speaking brain -- Spoken work recognition -- Semantic memory and the meaning of words -- Understanding and producing sentences -- Retrieving spoken words -- 12. The literate brain -- Visual word recognition -- Does understand the text require phonological mediation? -- Reading aloud: routes from spelling to sound -- Spelling and writing -- Does spelling use the same mechanisms as reading? -- 13. The numerate brain -- Universal numeracy? -- Meaning of numbers -- Models of number processing -- Are numbers represented in a visuospatial code? -- 14. The executive brain -- Anatomical and functional divisions of the prefrontal cortex -- Models of executive function^^^^

Functional specialization within the lateral prefrontal cortex? -- Role of the anterior cingulate in executive functions -- Task switching -- 15. The social and emotional brain -- Processing emotions and social cues: reading faces and reading eyes -- Processing emotions: role for somatic responses? -- Reading minds -- Antisocial behavior -- 16. The developing brain -- Structural development of the brain -- Functional development of the brain: sensitive periods and innate knowledge? -- Behavioral genetics -- Beyond nature versus nurture: gene--environment interplay.