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Subjects covered by this Arena include: Attention, Auditory Perception, Cognition and Emotion, Cognitive Neuropsychology and Neuroscience, Connectionism, Consciousness, Creativity, Dyslexia, Ecological Psychology, Emotion, Imagery, Individual Differences, Learning, Mathematical Cognition, Memory, Motivation, Motor Skills, Odor/Olfaction/Smell, Perception, Speech Perception & Production, Taste, Reasoning & Problem Solving, Touch, Visual Cogntion and Perception, and the Psychology of Language, Music, Reading and Writing.
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Psychology Press gain respected FSC Chain-of-Custody
Psychology Press has been awarded the highly respected Chain of Custody Certification in accordance with the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
The award applies to our three UK sites where books and journals by Psychology Press are produced. The Taylor & Francis Group - of which Psychology Press is a part - is believed to be the first academic publisher in the UK to gain this globally recognised certification.
The Chain-of-Custody shows the businesses comply with the highest social and environmental practices, supporting the world's forests and timber resources. The FSC supports forests, ensuring they are conserved for future generations. It tracks certified material from the forest through the production process all the way to the point of sale.
The FSC is a non-profit organisation founded in 1993 and key supporters include Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, many indigenous peoples' organisations, timber traders and retailers and members of printing industries worldwide.
Neuroscience and Crime: Neurocase Free Articles
The latest issue of Neurocase is a Special Issue looking at the many startling applications of modern neuroscientific theories and techniques in the various realms of jurisprudence and the law.
Topics covered include lie detection, forensic psychiatry, neuroscientific explanations of aggrgession, violence and criminal behaviour, impulse control, and many more.
We have made two articles from the Special Issue free to read online. These are Neuropsychological and Neural Correlates of Autobiographical Deficits in a Mother who Killed her Children by E. Kalbe et al.; and Detecting Concealed Information using Brain-imaging Technology by Mart Bles and John-Dylan Haynes.
View the Special Issue's entire contents and read the free articles
Handbook of Metamemory and Memory
This handbook examines the interplay between metamemory and memory.
Each contributor discusses cutting-edge theory and research that, in some way, showcases the symbiotic relationship between metamemory and memory.
Together, these chapters support a central thesis, which is that a complete understanding of either metamemory or memory is not possible without understanding their mutual influence.
find out more about the Handbook of Metamemory and Memory / order online
The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses
You are probably closely acquainted with at least six or seven people who have synesthesia, but you may not yet know who they are because, until very recently, synesthesia was largely hidden and unknown.
Now science is uncovering its secrets and the findings are leading to a radical rethink about how our senses are organized. In this timely and thought-provoking book, Jamie Ward argues that sensory mixing is the norm even though only a few of us cross the barrier into the realms of synesthesia.
Our dedicated The Frog Who Croaked Blue website has a free sample chapter, an interactive quiz to test if you have synesthesia, an interview with the author and much more.
find out more about The Frog Who Croaked Blue / order online
Tennis umpires and linesmen have better eyesight than players
Psychology Press author George Mather has finally disproved John McEnroe's claims that the ball was in.
"Using evidence from the Association of Tennis Professionals, George Mather, of the University of Sussex, has concluded that while players and line judges can be prone to error when assessing where a ball has bounced, because of what he calls "inherent limitations of human perceptual vision", the officials are significantly more accurate.
Dr Mather conducted his research after the introduction in 2006 of the Hawk-Eye electronic line-calling system, which has revolutionised the sport."
Read the Article in today's Times Online
find out more about Dr Mather's book Foundations of Perception / order online
New: Space and Sense
How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute?
This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on integrating diverse sensory inputs as reference cues for the location, distance or direction response that spatial tasks demand.
Space and Sense shows how perception by touch, as by vision, can be helped by external reference cues, and that 'visual' illusions that are also found in touch depend on common factors and do not occur by chance.
find out more about Space and Sense / order online
International Journal of Psychology Special Section Issues Now Available for Individual Purchase
Since 2007 the IJP has been publishing Special Section Issues - editions of the journal where a number of articles cover a single subject or respond to a lead paper, alongside the usual varied journal content of unrelated original articles.
So far, the subjects covered are:
- Agency and Human Development in Times of Social Change
- Implicit Representationss and Personality
- Psychological Research in Berlin, the Host City of ICP 2008
Due to the fact that these Special Section issues are likely to be of particular interest to researchers in those specific areas, we have decided to make the print editions available to buy on an individual basis, without need for a personal or institutional subscription.
These issues can be purchased online here
New Editors for Cognition & Emotion
Psychology Press are very pleased to announce the arrival of a new editorial team at the journal Cognition & Emotion. Jan De Houwer (Ghent University, Belgium) and Dirk Hermans' (University of Leuven, Belgium) initial editorial statement (PDF) is available to view free.
Professors De Houwer and Hermans have a long connection with Cognition & Emotion, having served on the Editorial Boards, undertaken reviewing and decision-making duties, published articles and guest-edited special issues. They bring a broad range of expertise to the journal, as well as ideas for maintaining the range of contributions, attracting top researchers to write for the journal and improving the impact factor.
Free Special Issue of International Journal of Psychology Now Available!
Ahead of the 29th annual International Congress of Psychology, taking place in Berlin this July, Psychology Press has made Issue 4 of Volume 42 of the International Journal of Psychology, guest edited by Peter Frensch (Humboldt Univerity, Germany) and Ralf Schwarzer (Free University Berlin, Germany) available for free download to all.
The Special Issue is based around the theme of Psychological Research in Berlin, the Host City of ICP 2008, and raises awareness of the broad diversity of psychological research coming out of the city, which boasts three universities with psychology departments, as well as a major psychology research institution: the Humboldt University, the Free University, the University of Technology, and the Max Planck Institute of Human Development.
The International Journal of Pychology is published on behalf of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPSyS), and edited by Claudia Dalbert of Martin Luther University, Germany.
download your copy of the special issue
New Textbook: Cognition and Emotion, 2nd Edition
The relationship between thinking and feeling has puzzled philosophers for centuries, but more recently has become a dominant focus in psychology and in the brain sciences.
his second edition of the highly praised Cognition and Emotion examines everything from past philosophical to current psychological perspectives in order to offer a novel understanding of both normal emotional experience and the emotional disorders.
Cognition and Emotion provides both an advanced textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in addition to a novel approach with a range of implications for clinical practice for work with the emotional disorders.
find out more about Cognition and Emotion / order online
New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders
We've lowered the amount you have to spend to get free shipping for orders in the UK and we've introduced a brand new free shipping threshold for customers in the US and Canada.
From now on, UK customers only need to spend £20 to qualify for free shipping (reduced from our previous post-free threshold of £30).
And US and Canadian customers can now also get free shipping on their orders by spending $35 (USD) or more.
Please note: these free shipping thresholds only apply to online orders placed through this website using our standard shipping service, not our express shipping service or for orders placed by other methods.
Textbook: The Laws of Emotion
The Laws of Emotion is an accessible work that reviews much of the insightful new research on emotions conducted over the last ten years.
It expands on the theory of emotions introduced in Nico Frijda's earlier work and addresses a number of unanswered, basic problems on emotion theory.
New Podcast: Interview with Professor Alan Baddeley
Alan Baddeley is Professor of Psychology at York and one of the world's leading authorities on Human Memory.
He is celebrated for devising the influential working memory model with Graham Hitch in the early 1970s, a model which still proves valuable today in recognising the functions of short-term memory. He is one of Psychology Press' most eminent authors, having written, among other things, two key memory textbooks: Essentials of Human Memory and Human Memory.
In this podcast we talk to Alan Baddeley about how he came to be interested in memory research, and why his ground-breaking working memory model almost didn’t see the light of day!
We also discuss various mechanisms of memory such as what exactly happens when you experience déjà vu or when something is on the tip of your tongue, and we ask the expert for methods for improving the memory.
New: Prospective Memory
Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory – the encoding, storage and delayed retrieval of intended actions – has attracted much interest.
This is reflected in a rapidly growing body of literature. Prospective Memory is an accessible guide to the latest research.
find out more about Prospective Memory / order online
The brochure New and Recent Titles in Cognition, 2008 is now available.
Unified Social Cognition
Understanding Developmental Language Disorders
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