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At the zone of intersection between imagery, law, and the economy, the defamatory image is charged with a particularly explosive significance. While a "pedagogy of shame" was used in the Late Middle Ages in order to punish debtors and other violators of contracts, the defamatory image remains to this day a vehicle for the moral denunciation and pejorative depiction of individuals who have violated the law. The contributions in this volume discuss the "magical force" exerted by defamatory imagery as well as the role of public humiliation in legal practice, including the "pittura infamante"...

Fritz Nathan zahlte zu den aufstrebenden Architekten im Deutschland der Zwanzigerjahre. Doch fuhrte die nationalsozialistische Diktatur zum jahen Ende der Karriere des judischen Architekten. 1940 in die USA emigriert, konnte ernach schwierigen Anfangen in seinem Beruf wieder Fuss fassen. Die langst fallige Wurdigung Nathans weist seine herausragende Bedeutung fur das Neue Bauen in Deutschland und die moderne Synagogenarchitektur in den USA nach.

To understand mental function, we need to uncover the representations and processes underlying our ability to comprehend and to produce words, sentences, numbers and objects (or pictures of them). The unique contribution of the field of cognitive neuropsychology is the investigation of these representations and processes in individuals who have sustained selective brain damage. Indeed, studies of such individuals provide a window into the mental system and allow us to explore the functional architecture that is necessary and sufficient for cognition.

This special issue of Cognitive...

Volume four of the all-new "Handbook of Neuropsychology" addresses the disorders of visual behaviour. This work reviews the neurophysiology of spatial vision, as well as recent work on recognition deficits for faces, objects and words. Also presented are disorders of spatial representation, of colour processing and of mental imagery. Balint's syndrome, blindsight, and visuospatial or constructional disorders are discussed and the relationship between eye movements and brain damage are described in detail.