Mental Processes in the Human Brain

The scientific study of the human mind and brain has come of age with the advent of technologically advanced methods for imaging brain structure and activity in health and disease, plus computational theories of cognition. These advances are leading to sophisticated new accounts for how mental processes are implemented in the human brain, but they also raise new challenges.

Mental Processes in the Human Brain provides an integrative overview of the rapid advances and future challenges in understanding the neurobiological basis of mental processes that are characteristically (and in some cases, perhaps uniquely) human, including: language; thought; understanding of others; attention; planning and decision-making; emotion; memory; prediction; and awareness itself. It also presents the latest insights into how these various processes can break down after brain injury. With chapters from some of leading figures in the brain sciences, this book will be essential for all those in the cognitive and brain sciences.

Jon Driver is Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College London, UK. Patrick Haggard is a Professor at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College London, UK. Tim Shallice is a Professor of Neuropsychology at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College London, UK.