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...

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...

The conference from which this book derives took place in Tsukuba, Japan in March 2004. The fifth in a continuing series of conferences, this one was organized to examine dynamic processes in "lower order" cognition from perception to attention to memory, considering both the behavioral and the neural levels. We were fortunate to attract a terrific group of con tributors representing five countries, which resulted in an exciting confer ence and, as the reader will quickly discover, an excellent set of chapters. In Chapter 1, we will provide a sketchy "road map" to these chapters, elu cidating...