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Some Reference Books
Links towards highly interesting sites

Thematic list of scientific books and connections with INRIA French Research Projects
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Mapping of Research Themes and Institutes
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Some wealth of information in Neurosciences :

• Neurosciences, Exploring the Brain (2001, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (USA) Editions)
  by Mark F. Bear, Barry W. Connors, Michael A. Paradiso, professors of neurosciences at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island


• Book in French: Brain and psychology: Introduction to anatomical and functional brain imaging, by Bernard Mazoyer, M.D and Doctor in biomathematics, professor of radiology and medical imaging at the University of Caen, Normandy, France, Director of the CI-NAPS (Disease Imaging, Neuroscience and Applications Centre)  and of the CYCERON: Medical Imaging Platform located in Caen
  Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer, M.D and Research Director at the CEA, French Research Institute, cognitive sciences specialist,
  Olivier Houdé, Doctor in psychology, professor of cognitive psychology at the Sorbonne University and the research team of the GIN, Neurofunctional Imaging Group, CNRS, CEA managed by Bernard Mazoyer.

Links towards Research Groups in Neurosciences and Cognitive Sciences:

• Neurospin Research Group, Life Sciences Division (DSV), CEA Saclay
  managed by Denis Le Bihan, which includes 4 labs:
• Cognitive neuroimaging Lab - Inserm U562 (Lcogn or UNICOG),
  managed by Stanilas Dehaene
  Research Topics: psychological and cerebral bases of arithmetics, reading, language, consciousness...
  Language Development Lab, managed by Ghislaine Dehaene
  Research on Synaesthesia, Edward M. Hubbard who formerly worked with Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
• Imaging and Spectroscopy Lab (LRMN)
• Computer-Assisted Neuroimaging Lab (LNAO)
• Biomedical Research Lab (LBIOM)

• CI-NAPS (Disease Imaging, Neuroscience and Applications Centre)
  managed by Bernard Mazoyer, which is based upon the platform:
• CYCERON Medical Imaging Research Platform in Caen, Normandy
  
  The CINAPS includes 3 laboratories:
  
• LINDECO: Neurofunctional Imaging of Mentation Lab
• LINLANG: Neurofunctional Imaging of Language Lab
• LDMTEP: PET Technology Development Lab

• Scientific results of the Life Sciences Division (DSV) research groups, CEA Saclay, France
  

• Synesthesia:
• Vilayanur S. Ramachandran's Web site, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego.
• Videos of lectures held by Vilanyanur S. Ramachandran about Synaesthesia and about the Functioning of Perception.
• Site which lists and portraits a few individuals with a savant syndrome, showing extraordinary performances.

A few video illustrations of outstanding cases of synaesthesia and extraordinary performances:

• Daniel Tammet, author of the book "Born on a Blue Day", video "The Boy with the Incredible Brain", who has a synaesthetic gift for arithmetics (by association of colours and shapes to numbers) and for language learning
• Videos about Kim Peek, savant with a macrocephaly, having an eidetic memory, who has inspired the script of the movie "Rain Man"
• Videos about Stephen Wiltshire, alias "The Human Camera", in his 180-degree drawing sessions where he draws the 3D geometry of entire cities he has visually memorized after just one overflight in a helicopter

• On-Line Lectures of the IN2P3 Institute (French Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics National Institute, including:
  
• Forum "Physics and Consciousness" (in French), held in Paris on December, 9&10, 2005
• RNSC (French Complex Systems Research Network) On-Line Lectures

• On-Line Lectures of the Society for Applied Neurosciences, including:
  
• MIT's OpenCourseWare on Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• NIH (National Institute of Health) PubMed Medical DataBase

• "The Brain from Top to Bottom" ("Le Cerveau à tous les niveaux") web site, Canadian Institutes of Neurosciences and Health Research

• Institutes and Societies dedicated to Research on Brain and Cognition:
• French Society for Neurosciences
• European Dana Alliance for the Brain
• (American) Society for Applied Neurosciences (SAN)
• Salk Institute for Biological Studies : Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, San Diego
• Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego
• Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego

• Anne Beuter's Home Page, professor of Neurosciences, McGill University (CND) and Institute of Cognition in Bordeaux, France

• Miscellaneous Links
• Introduction to cognitive therapies: Biofeedback (site in French)
• Biofeedback Europe Fondation
• EEGSpectrum: Introduction to the neurofeedback therapy and to research work in this area
• HearthMath: Research Institute on Heart Coherence

• Glossaries and Dictionaries of Cognitive Sciences
• University of Alberta's Dictionary of Cognitive Sciences
• University of Waterloo's Cognitive Sciences Glossary (Canadian Computational Epistemology Lab)

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