Royal Society for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The Royal Society is pleased to offer a preferential price to all FENS members for a number of recent and upcoming issues of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (Phil Trans B).

All selected print titles below can be purchased at the special price of £35.00 (usual price: £59.50).

To claim this special offer price, please send an email to debbie.vaughan@royalsociety.org and quote the "FENS special offer discount".

• • Liquid Brains, Solid Brains: How distributed cognitive architectures process information
  • From social brains to social robots: Applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction
  • Risk taking and impulsive behaviour: fundamental discoveries, theoretical perspectives and clinical implications
• Evolutionary thanatology: impacts of the dead on the living in humans and other animals
• Causes and consequences of individual differences in cognitive ability
• Perceptual consciousness and cognitive access
• Connectome to behaviour: modelling C. elegans at cellular resolution
• Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours
• Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour
• Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain
• Of mice and mental health: facilitating dialogue between basic and clinical neuroscientists (freely available online)
• Diverse perspectives on diversity: multi-disciplinary approaches to taxonomies of individual differences
• Bridging cultural gaps: interdisciplinary studies in human cultural evolution (freely available online)
• The origins of numerical abilities (freely available online)
• Movement suppression: brain mechanisms for stopping and stillness (freely available online) 
• Vision in dim light (freely available online) 

Forthcoming

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  • Bridging senses - new developments in synaesthesia
  • Evolution of mechanisms and behaviour important for pain
  • What can animal communication teach us about human language?
  • Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition
  • Unifying the essential concepts of biological networks: biological insights and philosophical foundations
  • Memory reactivation: replaying events past, present and future
  • Ritual renaissance: New insights into the most human of behaviors
  • Life history and learning: how the evolution of childhood, caregiving and old age shapes cognition, innovation, cooperation and culture

Phil Trans B is the longest-running scientific journal in the world and publishes 26 issues per year on a diverse range of topics across the biological sciences. Each issue focuses on a research frontier that is advancing rapidly, often bridging traditional disciplines. Neuroscience is one of four key coverage areas of the journal.

For more information on Phil Trans B, please bookmark: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb