Compulsory readings
Compulsory readings?Book: S.M.Kosslyn og E.E.Smith: Cognitive psychology; Mind and brain., 2007. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-182508-9 . . Chapters 3,5,6,7,8,12
Cognitive neurogenetics Using genetic data in cognitive neuroscience: from growing pains to genuine insights. Green AE, Munafò MR, DeYoung CG, Fossella JA, Fan J, Gray JR. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Sep;9(9):710-20.
Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition. Canli, T, Lesch, K.P. Nature Neuroscience. 2007; 1103-1108
?Attention The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind. Corbetta M, Patel G, Shulman GL. Neuron. 2008 May 8;58(3):306-24.
Sturm W, Schmenk B, Fimm B, Specht K, Weis S, Thron A, Willmes K (2006) Spatial attention: more than intrinsic alerting? Exp Brain Res 171:16-25.
?Working memory Hautzel H, Mottaghy FM, Specht K, Muller HW, Krause BJ (2009) Evidence of a modality-dependent role of the cerebellum in working memory? An fMRI study comparing verbal and abstract n-back tasks. Neuroimage 47:2073-2082.
Executive functions Specht K, Lie CH, Shah NJ, Fink GR (2009a) Disentangling the prefrontal network for rule selection by means of a non-verbal variant of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. Hum Brain Mapp 30:1734-1743.
?Emotion and Cognition Executive function and prefrontal dysfunction in unipolar depression: A review of neuropsychological and imaging evidence. Rogers et al. Neuroscience Research 2004; 50; 1-11.
Auditory & Speech percetionHickok G, Poeppel D (2007) The cortical organization of speech processing. Nat Rev Neurosci 8:393-402.
Specht K, Reul J (2003) Functional segregation of the temporal lobes into highly differentiated subsystems for auditory perception: an auditory rapid event-related fMRI-task. Neuroimage 20:1944-1954.
Recommended readings
Cognitive neurogenetics Genetic variation of serotonin function and cognitive control. Strobel et al. J. of Cognitive Neuroscience 2007, 19; 1923-1931. Molecular genetics of attention. Bellgrove MA, Mattingley JB. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008;1129:200-12.
?Attention Sturm W, Longoni F, Weis S, Specht K, Herzog H, Vohn R, Thimm M, Willmes K (2004) Functional reorganisation in patients with right hemisphere stroke after training of alertness: a longitudinal PET and fMRI study in eight cases. Neuropsychologia 42:434-450.
Working memory The mind and brain of short-term memory. Jonides J, Lewis RL, Nee DE, Lustig CA, Berman MG, Moore KS. Annu Rev Psychol. 2008;59:193-224.
Persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex during working memory. Curtis CE, D'Esposito M. Trends Cogn Sci. 2003 Sep;7(9):415-423.
Executive functions Lie CH, Specht K, Marshall JC, Fink GR (2006) Using fMRI to decompose the neural processes underlying the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. Neuroimage 30:1038-1049.
Emotion and Cognition Cognitive and serotonergic vulnerability to depression: Convergent findings.Booij. L., Van der Does, W. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116; 86-94.
Auditory & Speech percetionSpecht K, Osnes B, Hugdahl K (2009b) Detection of differential speech-specific processes in the temporal lobe using fMRI and a dynamic "sound morphing" technique. Hum Brain Mapp Indefrey P, Cutler A (2004) Prelexical and lexical processing in listening. In: The Cognitive Neuroscience (3rd ed.) (Gazzaniga MS, ed), pp 759-774. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (fulltext available at: http://www.mpi.nl/publications/escidoc-58547)