Cyberpsychology and the Brain. the Interaction of Neuroscience and Affective Computing

Description

Cyberpsychology is a relatively new discipline that is growing at an alarming rate. While a number of cyberpsychology-related journals and books have emerged, none directly address the neuroscience behind it. This book proposes a framework for integrating neuroscience and cyberpsychology for the study of social, cognitive, and affective processes, and the neural systems that support them. A brain-based cyberpsychology can be understood as a branch of psychology that studies the neurocognitive, affective, and social aspects of humans interacting withtechnology, as well as the affective computing aspects of humans interacting with computational devices or systems. As such, a cyberpsychologist working from a brain-based cyberpsychological framework studies both the ways in which persons make use of devices and theneurocognitive processes, motivations, intentions, behavioural outcomes, and effects of online and offline uses of technology. Cyberpsychology and the Brain brings researchers into the vanguard of cyberpsychology and brain research.

• Proposes a framework for integrating neuroscience and cyberpsychology
• Presents research that is not readily available in any other text
• Offers a comprehensive account of brain-based cyberpsychology research findings 

Contents

Preface
Part I. Introduction:
1. Cyberpsychology: changing roles and tools
2. Brain and cyberpsychology: a primer
3. Measurement in cyberpsychology
Part II. The Medium is the Message that Changes the Brain:
4. This is your brain on the internet
5. Facebook and the socially networked brain
6. The media multitasked brain
7. Cyber addictions
Part III. Cyberpsychology and the Neurosciences:
8. Cyberpsychology, ecological validity, and neurosciences of everyday living
9. Affective neuroscience for affective computing
10. Social neuroscience and the need for dynamic simulations
11. Clinical neuroscience: novel technologies for assessment and treatment
Part IV. Applied Cyberpsychology:
12. Psychophysiological computing in cyberpsychology
13. Cyberpsychology of videogames
14. NeuroIS: cybersecurity and the brain
Part V. Conclusions:
15. Prospects for a brain-based cyberpsychology.

Author

Thomas D. Parsons, University of North Texas
Thomas D. Parsons, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas. He has also served as Assistant Professor and Research Scientist at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. He is a leading scientist in the integration of neuropsychology and simulation technologies. He has directed seventeen funded projects and has been an investigator on an additional thirteen funded projects. In addition to his patents for eHarmony.com's Matching System, he has invented and validated virtual reality-basedneuropsychological assessments. He has over two hundred publications, and he has been awarded the National Academy of Neuropsychology's Early Career Achievement Award.