General Literature and interesting links

Books:

The Cognitive Neurosciences. M. Gazzaniga (ed) MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1995 and Second Edition 2000: The New Cognitive Neurosciences,  Third Edition 2004)

Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior. Kandell ER, Schwartz JH, Jessel TM:. Prentice Hall International, Inc. 1995.  (several Chapters: e.g., Cognitive neural science) and more recent editions.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory. Howard Eichenbaum. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 370 pp. 

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. J. Martinez & R. Kesner (eds) Academic Press, 1998.  

Neuroscience. 2nd ed Purves, Dale; Augustine, George J.; Fitzpatrick, David; Katz, Lawrence C.; LaMantia, Anthony-Samuel; McNamara, James O.; Williams, S. Mark.Sunderland (MA): Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2001. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=PubMed   - gives free access to books, e.g. Neuroscience (Purves). -- At the right side of the black horizontal black bar - click   Books;   

Biological Psychology. Kalat J.W. 2003

Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology. Kolb B, Wishaw I. 2003

Suggested Web-sites to prepare for lectures:

1) Basics in Vision: an introductory course on http://webvision.med.utah.edu/  

Please, use this site to prepare for the Tuesday lecture of Pieter Poelfsema.

(2) fMRI and brain function - an introduction to the subject: http://www.functionalmri.org/

www.fmri.nl -  relevant for brain anatomy; excellent site and links - use it to prepare for Thursdays lectures of Mark van Buchem and Frank van der Velde.

(3) Psychological texts - two books by Kolb and Wishaw - follow the links on the web-site, you get free access to chapters and you can test your knowledge. http://www.worthpublishers.com/kolb/

Review article:

Cognitive neuroscience and the study of memory. B. Milner, L.R. Squire, E.R. Kandel, Neuron 20:445-468, 1998 (as pdf-file availble: mail to: m.oitzl@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl)  

Interesting:

The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (1999)

NWO Topic since 2002: Cognitive Sciences – four themes: (1) Neuron to Cognition; (2) Unconscious and planned behaviour. (3) Communication and socially situated cognition; (4) Organization and accessibility of knowledge. See also: http://www.nwo.nl/

Regular announcement of national scientific activities related to Cognition.

Journals:

Current Opinion in Neurobiology  Every year the April-issue of this journal is dedicated to "Cognitive Neuroscience". Current Opinion in Neurobiology is online available (full text) via the University library.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences:

Annual Reviews in Neuroscience

Nature Journals like Nature Reviews in the Neurosciences, Nature Neuroscience , etc

More Sites:  

Visual phenomenons - optic illusions: a set of interesting examples and further links at http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

Seeing - hearing - smelling the world

Brain atlas – and functional aspects

Neuro- and medical psychology

Split brain: http://www.indiana.edu/~pietsch/?splitbrain.html    

 http://www.macalester.edu  

Cognitive Neuroscience sites:

McDonnell-Pew Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience in Europe 

Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology