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• Edited by Katharine Hodgkin, and Susannah Radstone.

A focus on memory has come to prominence across a wide range of disciplines. History, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of their interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imagination. At the same time, memory has emerged as a…

ISBN: 9780415511049

Published Nov 28, 2011 by Routledge

• By Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
• Translated by Donald Landes.
• Foreword by Taylor Carman.
• Introduction by Claude Lefort.

First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the…

ISBN: 9780415558693

Published Nov 27, 2011 by Routledge

• Edited by Robyn Langdon, and Catriona Mackenzie.

This volume brings together philosophical perspectives on emotions, imagination and moral reasoning with contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, personality theory, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology. The book explores what we can learn…

ISBN: 9781848729001

Published Nov 22, 2011 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Slim Masmoudi, David Yun Dai and Abdelmajid Naceur.

This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme: integration. Despite different research foci and methodologies, there is a strong consensus that we need to understand a…

ISBN: 9781848729735

Published Nov 15, 2011 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Wolfram Hinzen, and David Poeppel.

The issue presents a selection of approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of semantic processing. The term ‘semantics’ covers a range of approaches: perception-based conceptual structures, the impact of concepts such as animacy on syntactically determined meaning, the unification of incoming…

ISBN: 9781848727502

Published Nov 15, 2011 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Mark Haselgrove, and Lee Hogarth.

This book examines a variety of psychological disorders from the perspective of the psychology of learning. Grounded in the study of classical and instrumental conditioning, learning theory provides an explanatory framework for the way in which humans acquire information, and when applied, how…

ISBN: 9781848720084

Published Nov 09, 2011 by Psychology Press

• By Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, Jane Ashby and Charles Clifton.

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important…

ISBN: 9781848729759

Published Nov 08, 2011 by Psychology Press