This volume arose from discussions at conferences held at the U. of Tunis, Tunisia, in 2007 and 2009 on the integration of cognition, emotion, and motivation (CEM); the conferences provided
opportunities for French- and English-speaking researchers to interact concerning efforts to combat compartmentalization in the psychological sciences and to "formulate meaningful theories that
can explain real-life behavioral and psychological phenomena." Among the topics addressed in 12 contributions (all in English): how emotion influences working memory, the psychological and
neural basis of emotional processing, mood's influence on semantic memory, neuroaesthetics and the art of representation, and the irrationality of the decision process. Masmoudi (psychology, U.
of Tunis) provides an introductory essay; Dai (educational and counseling psychology, State U. of New York) and Sun (cognitive science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York) provide an
epilogue on the unity of attention, representation, and performance. Psychology Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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