Methods in Mind

<b>Experts discuss the wide variety of investigative tools available to cognitive neuroscience including transcranial magnetic stimulation neuroscience computation fMRI imaging genetics and neuropharmacology with particular emphasis on convergence of techniques and innovative uses.</b><p>The evolution of cognitive neuroscience has been spurred by the development of increasingly sophisticated investigative techniques to study human cognition. In <i>Methods in Mind</i> experts examine the wide variety of tools available to cognitive neuroscientists paying particular attention to the ways in which different methods can be integrated to strengthen empirical findings and how innovative uses for established techniques can be developed. The book will be a uniquely valuable resource for the researcher seeking to expand his or her repertoire of investigative techniques.</p><p>Each chapter explores a different approach. These include transcranial magnetic stimulation cognitive neuropsychiatry lesion studies in nonhuman primates computational modeling psychophysiology single neurons and primate behavior grid computing eye movements fMRI electroencephalography imaging genetics magnetoencephalography neuropharmacology and neuroendocrinology. As mandated authors focus on convergence and innovation in their fields; chapters highlight such cross-method innovations as the use of the fMRI signal to constrain magnetoencephalography the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to guide rapid transcranial magnetic stimulation at a specific frequency and the successful integration of neuroimaging and genetic analysis. Computational approaches depend on increased computing power and one chapter describes the use of distributed or grid computing to analyze massive datasets in cyberspace. Each chapter author is a leading authority in the technique discussed.</p><p><b>Contributors: <br></b>Peyman Adjamian Peter A. Bandettini Mark Baxter Anthony S. David James Dobson Ian Foster Michael Gazzaniga Dietmar G. Heinke Stephen Hall John M. Henderson Glyn W. Humphreys Andreas Meyer-Lindenburg Venkata Mattay Elisabeth A. Murray Gina Rippon Tamara Russell Carl Senior Philip Shaw Krish D. Singh Marc A. Sommer Lauren Stewart John D. Van Horn Jens Voeckler Vincent Walsh Daniel R. Weinberger Michael Wilde Jeffrey Woodward Robert H. Wurtz Eun Young Yoon Yong Zhao Carl Senior Tamara Russell and Michael S. Gazzaniga</p>