Memory Arena

Short Term/Working Memory: Second Quebec Conference on Short-Term/Working

A Special Issue of Memory

• Edited by Ian Neath, Gordon D.A. Brown, Marie Poirier and Claudette Fortin.

Published May 2005

Originated at the Second Quebec Conference on Short-Term/Working Memory in 2002, this special issue provides an up-to-date snap shot of empirical and theoretical work on short-term and working memory from an impressive diversity of approaches.…
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Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook

• By Michael W. Eysenck, and Mark T. Keane.

Published April 2005

This fifth edition of the best-selling international cognitive psychology textbook has been substantially updated and restructured to reflect new developments in cognitive psychology, and made more student-friendly. Established approaches covered in depth include: Experimental cognitive…
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Attention, Perception and Memory

An Integrated Introduction

• By Elizabeth Styles.

Published February 2005

Although attention, perception and memory are identifiable components of the human cognitive system, this book argues that for a complete understanding of any of them it is necessary to appreciate the way they interact and depend on one another. Using close examination of experiments, studies of…
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Human Learning and Memory

Advances in Theory and Applications: The 4th Tsukuba International Conference on Memory

• Edited by Chizuko Izawa, and Nobuo Ohta.

Published January 2005

This text celebrates the fourth Tsukuba International Conference on Memory (Tic4) held in January of 2003, by setting forth productive directions for memory researchers and human learning theorists around the world. It presents fascinating perspectives on progress, and future prospects for models,…
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An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology

• By Anthony Esgate, and David Groome.

Published December 2004

Co-Authors: Kevin Baker, Corriene Reed, David Heathcote, Moira Maguire & Richard Kemp An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers a student friendly review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories and models to real-world scenarios. The authors approach…
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Cognitive Illusions

A Handbook on Fallacies and Biases in Thinking, Judgement and Memory

• Edited by Rüdiger F Pohl.

Published October 2004

Cognitive Illusions investigates a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. At the beginning of each chapter, leading researchers in the field introduce the background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence…
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The Self and Memory

• Edited by Denise R. Beike, James M. Lampinen and Douglas A. Behrend.

Published August 2004

Noted scholars from a broad range of sub-disciplines in psychology discuss the ways in which the memories of our lives come to influence who we are, our personalities, and our emotional functioning. Other topics covered include how our personalities and self-concepts influence what we remember from…
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Mental Imagery and Memory in Psychopathology

A Special Issue of Memory

• Edited by Emily A. Holmes, and Ann Hackmann.

Published July 2004

Intrusive mental images in the form of flashbacks have long been recognised as a hallmark of post-traumatic stress disorder. However, clinicians have become increasingly aware that distressing imagery is a more pervasive phenomenon. There appears to be a powerful link between imagery and…
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Emotional Memory Failures

A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

• Edited by Ineke Wessel, and Daniel B. Wright.

Published June 2004

The beginning of the 1990's saw a partisan debate about the nature of recovered memories for highly emotional events. Some authors claimed that recovered memories of trauma always referred to veridical memories that had been inaccessible for years. Others argued that such memories were false by…
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Proceedings of the 25th Annual Cognitive Science Society

Part 1 and 2

• Edited by Richard Alterman, and David Kirsch.

Published June 2004

This volume features the complete text of the material presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. As in previous years, the symposium included an interesting mixture of papers on many topics from researchers with diverse backgrounds and different goals,…
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