Author: Jackie Andrade File Type: pdf The Baddeley and Hitch (1974) Working Memory model holds a central place in experimental psychology and continues to be extremely successful in guiding and stimulating research in applied and theoretical domains. Yet the model now faces challenges from conflicting data and competing theories. In this book, experienced researchers in the field address the question Will the model survive these challenges? They explain why it is so successful, evaluate its weaknesses with respect to opposing data and theories and present their vision of the future of the model in their particular area of research. The book includes a discussion of the Episodic Buffer component which has recently been added to the working memory model.The result is a comprehensive and critical assessment of the working memory model and its contribution to current research in human cognition, cognitive development, neuroscience and computational modelling. Furthermore, this collection serves as a case study to illustrate the range of factors that determine the success or failure of a theory and as a forum for discussing what researchers want from scientific theories. The book begins with an accessible introduction to the model for those new to the field and explains the empirical methods used in working memory research. It concludes by highlighting areas of consensus and suggesting a programme of research to address issues of continuing controversy. Working Memory in Perspective will be a valuable resource to students and researchers alike in the fields of human memory, language, thought and cognitive development.**

Author: Susan Hamilton File Type: pdf Drawing on the history of English feminism and the study of Victorian periodical and newspaper presses, this important and timely new book asks a key question that neither history nor literary studies has yet addressed what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances Power Cobbe (one of a handful of women to make a steady living for the mid-nineteenth century established press), Susan Hamilton opens up our understanding of Victorian feminism and its political workings, and urges us to reconsider what feminism looked like in the nineteenth-century.

Author: Timothy Wiarda File Type: pdf A number of New Testament passages depict the Holy Spirit acting in conjunction with gospel preaching or other forms of humanly given communication about Jesus, yet there is considerable disagreement about how these passages should be interpreted. Unresolved exegetical debates about the correlative action (the dual testimony?) of the Spirit and the humanly conveyed word plague the interpretation of whole writings, extended sections of individual works, and important themes. This book examines this contested motif in a focused and comprehensive way. It begins by taking the Pauline, Johannine, and Lucan writings in turn, subjecting the central texts that express dual testimony to detailed exegetical analysis. On the basis of this exegetical work it then moves to a big-picture analysis of the way each corpus expresses and uses the dual-testimony motif, identifying individual emphases and tendencies as well as shared elements that can be observed across the three bodies of writing. Two final chapters offer brief reflections on possible developmental scenarios and points at which the preceding exegetical findings may impinge on questions of contemporary theology.

Author: Jeffrey D. Gonda File Type: pdf In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants--one of the most pervasive tools of residential segregation in the aftermath of World War II. Over the next three years, local activists and lawyers at the NAACP fought through the nations courts to end the enforcement of these discriminatory contracts. Unjust Deeds explores the origins and complex legacies of their dramatic campaign, culminating in a landmark Supreme Court victory in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). Restoring this story to its proper place in the history of the black freedom struggle, Jeffrey D. Gondas groundbreaking study provides a critical vantage point to the simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions of legal activism in the twentieth century and offers a new understanding of the evolving legal fight against Jim Crow in neighborhoods and courtrooms across America. **Review An examination of the simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions of legal activism in the twentieth century.--Law & Social Inquiry Raises fundamental philosophical questions that are sure to inspire conversation and debate.---Missouri Historical Review A highly readable, well argued, and ultimately convincing reappraisal of the significance of restrictive covenant cases in modern American history.--Journal of Social History Gondas valuable contribution underscores the formidable movement to counter housing discrimination, an area of research long neglected.--Journal of Southern History Well written and argued, Unjust Deeds add important details to the story of the black freedom struggle.--Journal of American History Review The time is more than ripe for a new look at restrictive covenant litigation, and Unjust Deeds is invaluable in this regard. With top-rate scholarship and original treatment, this is an important new work. Its definitely among the top books on legal civil rights history from the past decade.--Susan Carle, American University Washington College of Law A pathbreaking and definitive account of the struggle against racially restrictive covenants in the 1940s, Unjust Deeds reveals the complex processes of housing discrimination alongside the dynamic efforts to redraw the American map and redefine the American dream.Jeffrey Gonda compellingly shows how this block-by-block battle was crucial in establishing the litigation tactics, constitutional arguments, and collaborative activism that would come to define the legal assault on Jim Crow. Rooted in the Great Migration and the World War II-era urban housing shortage, Gondas brilliant storytelling details how people who just wanted a safe place to live found the courage and commitment to take a heroic stand for equal rights. Unjust Deeds is legal, social, and political history at its best.--Daniel J. Sharfstein, Vanderbilt University Law School, author of The Invisible Line A Secret History of Race in America. Unjust Deeds analyzes the legal history of Shelley v. Kraemer to show just how instrumental legal campaigns have been to the Black Freedom Struggle. With clear and precise writing, Jeffrey Gonda is making an essential contribution to civil rights scholarship.--Robert S. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee