Biopsychology and neuropsychology: The best textbooks summarized

Summaries per chapter with Brain and Cognition (UT Twente)

Table of content

• Chapter 0 -  What is the book 'Brain and Cognition' about?
• Chapter 1 - What is biopsychology and what does the biopsychological approach entail?
• Chapter 2 - How do the evolutionary perspective, genetics and experience help us study the biology of behavior?
• Chapter 3 - What does the anatomy of the nervous system look like?
• Chapter 4 - How are neurons able to send and receive signals?
• Chapter 5 - What different research methods are used in the field of biopsychology?
• Chapter 6 - How does the visual system work?
• Chapter 7 - How does the sensorimotor system allow for movement?
• Chapter 8 - What are the functions of sleep, dreaming and circadian rhythms?
• Chapter 9 - What does the field of cognitive psychology entail?
• Chapter 10 - How do sensations lead to perceptual experiences?

Summaries per chapter with Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain

Table of content

• Chapter 0 - What is Goswami's view on cognitive development?
• Chapter 1 - What kinds of knowledge are central to cognitive development?
• Chapter 2 - How does perception develop?
• Chapter 3 - How do children learn?
• Chapter 4 - How are social cognition, mental representation and theory of mind related?
• Chapter 5 - How are conceptual development and the biological world related?
• Chapter 6 - How does language develop cognitively?
• Chapter 7 - How are causal reasoning and the human brain related?
• Chapter 8 - How does memory develop?
• Chapter 9 - How do metacognition, reasoning and executive function develop?
• Chapter 10 - How do reading and mathematical skills develop?
• Chapter 11 - What theories of cognitive development are there?

Summaries per chapter with Developmental Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach

Table of contents

• Chapter 0 - How is Developmental neuropsychology: A clinical approach structured?
• Chapter 1 - What is child neuropsychology and how has it developed over the past twenty years?
• Chapter 2 - What are the main characteristics of brain development?
• Chapter 3 - What is the influence of early brain insult on cognitive and social development?
• Chapter 4 - What is currently known about recovery from early brain insult?
• Chapter 5 - How do genetic and metabolic disordersdiffer from traumatic brain injury?
• Chapter 6 - What is the relationship between brain dysmorphology and functional outcomes?
• Chapter 7 - How does the study of common perinatal brain insults facilitate knowledge about the principles of post-natal neural development?
• Chapter 8 - What are the main characteristics of neurodevelopmental disorders?
• Chapter 9 - What are the characteristics and consequences

Summaries per chapter with the 2nd edition of Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience by Purves et al.