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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.
Cognitive Psychology News:
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 Psychology of Emotion Brochure 2007/2008 is now available.
Behavior Analysis and Learning
From individual to collective memory
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