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   An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing

   The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech.

   Throughout, an evaluation is made of the research on patterns of typical development across languages in monolingual and bilingual children and children with speech impairments affecting various aspects of their developing complex system.

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   Attributes of Memory (Psychology Revivals)

   First published in 1974, Attributes of Memory rejected the prevalent stress on the structure of memory. It suggests that the view of memory as a sequence of stores through which information passes is mistaken.

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   Working Memory: The Connected Intelligence

   In this volume, the first in the new Frontiers of Cognitive Psychology Series, leading psychologists review the latest research on working memory and consider what role it plays in development and over the lifespan. It is revealed how a strong working memory is connected with success (academically and acquiring expertise) and a poor working memory is connected with failure (addictive behavior and poor decision-making).

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   Extraordinary Memories for Exceptional Events

   Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology Series

   Not all memories are created equal. Our memories for some very exceptional events seem to stand out in our minds, and as such they may form the very core of who we are.

   This book summarizes theories and data that provide insight into these extraordinary memories for exceptional events. Topics explored include flashbulb memories, the influence of emotion on memory, the bizarre imagery effect, the humor effect, the serial position effect, and the isolation effect.

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   Memory and Aging

   This volume takes a contemporary look at the impact of aging on short-term and working memory, and on long-term explicit and implicit memory.

   World-renowned researchers present the latest neuroscientific data on the physiological and health perspectives, as well as the social, cultural, and cross-cultural consequences.

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   From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language

   Essays in Honour of Michel Denis

   Series: Psychology Press Festschrifts

   The nature of mental images and their relation to language has caused controversy amongst psychologists for years, and the so-called "imagery debate" is still unresolved. Fresh light is now being shed on this topic using recent findings in neuroscience and the development of behavioural studies. Reviewing state-of-the-art research in the field of imagery, visuo-spatial memory, spatial representation and language, with special emphasis on their interactions, the volume shows how, and to what extent, findings from the studies on imagery can positively influence and enrich other psychological areas.

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