Postle's Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience invites the reader to join in the scientific exploration of mind and brain. The field is presented, not just as a collection of facts, but as an approach to answering enduring questions about how experience, thought, and behavior arise from activity in the brain. The student becomes, not just a bystander, but a participant in the process of scientific discovery.-- Jay McClelland, Director, Center for Mind Brain and Computation, Stanford University This highly readable textbook provides a concise, easily accessible and up-to-date introduction to the field of cognitive neuroscience.-- John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center for Comptutational Neuroscience, Charité Berlin, Germany Cognitive neuroscience is an exceptionally exciting and rapidly advancing field in which progress is made through research diverse approaches in animals as well as humans. Brad Postle articulates the essential knowledge of this field in a masterful synthesis that will guide a new generation of students in appreciating that progress in understanding how the brain generates 'thought'.-- Howard Eichenbaum, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University This is a brilliantly written and beautifully illustrated book charting the breadth and depth of cognitive neuroscience from its historical roots to the hottest controversies in the field today. If you think you know everything about cognitive neuroscience then this book will show you that you're wrong.

And if you are just getting going, then this is the perfect place to start.-- Adrian M. Owen, The University of Western Ontario, Canada.