Brain and Behaviour

Seventeen landmark experiments from neuroscience and psychology are revisited in this volume. It focuses on the work of figures such as Phineas Gage, Alexander Luria, Roger Sperry and Endel Tulving, and considers how their findings still shape the field. Each study is examined closely, and the discussion then turns to the research it later inspired.

The book belongs to a series that presents psychology's most influential studies, the ones that altered how the discipline understands its central questions. Its aim is to push students toward sharper, more demanding questions, both about the experiments themselves and about what each one truly contributed.

Chapters are contributed by active researchers working at the front of these areas and are overseen by established scholars in the field. Each one lays out the original study and its theoretical and empirical consequences, then traces how thinking and methods have developed since.