The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience 2009, Volume 1156

This volume features in–depth reviews of the major issues and emerging topics in cognitive neurosciences. The contributors are among the top researchers in the field.
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Preface: Michael B. Miller and Alan Kingstone.
1. Genes, Cognition, and Communication: Insights from Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Dorothy V.M. Bishop.
2. The Evolution of Language: Michael C. Corballis.
3. In Search of a Unifying Theory of Complex Brain Evolution: Leah Krubitzer.
4. Autism: The Empathizing–Systemizing (E–S) Theory: Simon Baron–Cohen.
5. The Social Neuroscience of Empathy: Tania Singer and Claus Lamm.
6. Embodied Cognition and The Simulation of Action to Understand Others: Scott T. Grafton.
7. Human Social Attention: A New Look at Past, Present, and Future Investigations: Elina Birmingham and Alan Kingstone.
8. Attention, Automaticity, and Awareness in Synaesthesia: Jason B. Mattingley.
9. The Role of Sleep in Cognition and Emotion: Matthew P. Walker.
10. Neurobiological Mechanisms of Placebo Responses. By Jon–Kar Zubieta.
11. Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music: Daniel J. Levitin & Anna K. Tirovolas.
12. Origins of Mathematical Intuitions: The Case of Arit hmetic: Stanislas Dehaene.
13. What’s New in Neuroimaging Methods?: Peter A. Bandettini.
Index of Contributors.