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Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN: 978-0-470-75557-0

April 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

328 pages

Description
Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of original articles that explores cutting-edge research in memory and emotion, discussing findings, methodological techniques, and theoretical advances in one of the fastest-growing areas in psychology.
  • contains contributions by leading researchers the field
  • emphasizes cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology, and aging in covering contemporary advances in research on memory and emotion
  • covers many of the current hot topics in the field including: dissociative amnesia and post-traumatic stress disorder; false, recovered and traumatic memories; flashbulb memories; the use of emotional memories in therapy; and the influence of emotion on autobiographical memory.
About the Author
Bob Uttl is Center of Excellence Professor of Psychology at Tamagawa University, Japan.

Nobuo Ohta is Professor of Psychology at the Tokyo University of Social Welfare, Japan.



Amy L. Siegenthaler is a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tokyo University of Social Welfare.

Features

  • collection of original articles that explores cutting-edge research in memory and emotion, discussing findings, methodological techniques, and theoretical advances
  • contains contributions by leading researchers in one of the fastest-growing areas in psychology
  • emphasizes cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology, and aging in covering contemporary advances in research on memory and emotion
  • covers many of the current hot topics in the field including: dissociative amnesia and post-traumatic stress disorder; false, recovered and traumatic memories; flashbulb memories; the use of emotional memories in therapy; and the influence of emotion on autobiographical memory.