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Advances in Neurorestoratology—Current status and future developments (2023)
Book Chapter
Huang, H., Ramon-Cueto, A., El Masri, W., Moviglia, G. A., Saberi, H., Sharma, H. S., …Sarnowska, A. (2023). Advances in Neurorestoratology—Current status and future developments. . Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.irn.2023.04.003

Neurorestoratology constitutes a novel discipline aimed at the restoration of damaged neural structures and impaired neurological functions. This area of knowledge integrates and compiles all concepts and strategies dealing with the neurorestoration.... Read More about Advances in Neurorestoratology—Current status and future developments.

Afterword (2023)
Book Chapter
Kallis, A. (2023). Afterword. In Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This afterword to the Ideas section starts by considering the role of ‘contact zones’, which are places of accumulation and organisation of differential knowledge that were already pronounced in early historical periods. However, from the expansion o... Read More about Afterword.

Currency, Identity and Trust - Cryptocurrencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the case for the Bahamian Sand Dollar (2023)
Book Chapter
Syrrakos, D., Kuehnlenz, S., & Shand, R. (2024). Currency, Identity and Trust - Cryptocurrencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the case for the Bahamian Sand Dollar. In Intercultural Issues in the Workplace. (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42320-8_10

The chapter focuses on the intercultural aspects of money and national currencies. It draws on the historical evolution of the use of money during the last three centuries and assesses the major developments since 1945. In doing so, the links between... Read More about Currency, Identity and Trust - Cryptocurrencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the case for the Bahamian Sand Dollar.

‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This (2023)
Book Chapter
Peacock, J. (2023). ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This. In Benjamin Markovits Critical Essays. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032614892-6

Halfway through Markovits’ novel about a scheme to regenerate Detroit’s neighbourhoods, the narrator, Greg Marnier (known as Marny), returns from his girlfriend’s apartment in the snow. On Mack Avenue, he starts to feel “scared” and reflects on “the... Read More about ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This.

Defoe and Economics (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. Defoe and Economics. In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (249-271). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.41

This chapter outlines Daniel Defoe’s economic ideas, first situating his periodical essays, pamphlets, and economic tracts in the context of the financial revolution, then considering anxieties he expresses about the new ‘culture of commerce’, and fi... Read More about Defoe and Economics.

The Celebrated Daniel De Foe (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. The Celebrated Daniel De Foe. In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (583-609). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.40

The story of Daniel Defoe’s publication, from his death in 1731 to the mid-twentieth century, shows three things that have been inadequately acknowledged in accounts of his posthumous reputation. First, his writings were extensively republished, and... Read More about The Celebrated Daniel De Foe.

The Style of Defoe’s Correspondence (2023)
Book Chapter
Mierowsky, M. The Style of Defoe’s Correspondence. In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe Get access Arrow (177-194). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.10

This chapter examines Daniel Defoe’s use of letters, both within printed works that adopt an epistolary format such as The Complete English Tradesman (1725–7) and his personal correspondence with politicians and other associates. The chapter reveals... Read More about The Style of Defoe’s Correspondence.

The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945 (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2023). The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945. In N. Seager, & J. A. Downie (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (583-609). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.40

The story of Daniel Defoe’s publication, from his death in 1731 to the mid-twentieth century, shows three things that have been inadequately acknowledged in accounts of his posthumous reputation. First, his writings were extensively republished, and... Read More about The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945.

Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2023). Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance. In N. Seager, & J. A. Downie (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (249-271). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.41

This chapter outlines Daniel Defoe’s economic ideas, first situating his periodical essays, pamphlets, and economic tracts in the context of the financial revolution, then considering anxieties he expresses about the new ‘culture of commerce’, and fi... Read More about Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance.

To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge (2023)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2023). To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge. In P.F. Strawson and His Legacy. In Audun Bengtson, Benjamin De Mesel and Sybren Heyndels (eds.) (192-211). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858474.003.0010

How should one respond to scepticism? Should one seek to refute it? Or should scepticism be ignored? This chapter explores four responses to scepticism: that of ambitious, truth-directed transcendental arguments; that of modest transcendental argumen... Read More about To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge.

The Lowest Eigenfrequencies of an Immersed Thin Elastic Cylindrical Shell (2023)
Book Chapter
Yücel, H., Erbaş, B., Ege, N., & Kaplunov, J. (2023). The Lowest Eigenfrequencies of an Immersed Thin Elastic Cylindrical Shell. In Advances in Linear and Nonlinear Continuum and Structural Mechanics (559-571). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43210-1_31

The plane strain time-harmonic motion of an immersed cylindrical elastic shell is considered. The revisit to this classical problem is motivated by modern technical applications, including the investigation of low-frequency band gaps arising at acous... Read More about The Lowest Eigenfrequencies of an Immersed Thin Elastic Cylindrical Shell.

The nature of consciousness (2023)
Book Chapter
Ball, L. J., Butler, L. T., Sherman, S. M., & St Clair-Thompson, H. (2023). The nature of consciousness. In Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145851-13

Consciousness is everything you experience during every waking moment of your life. Attempts to understand what consciousness is and how it works represents one of humanity’s biggest questions. The past two decades have witnessed substantial progress... Read More about The nature of consciousness.

The future of cognitive psychology (2023)
Book Chapter
Ball, L. J., Butler, L. T., Sherman, S. M., & St Clair-Thompson, H. (2023). The future of cognitive psychology. In Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145851-15

In this chapter, we will start by putting cognitive psychology into its current context. Over the past few years, the discipline of psychology has been in the grip of what many people have called ‘a replication crisis’. The positive lessons emerging... Read More about The future of cognitive psychology.

Speech and other language issues (2023)
Book Chapter
Ball, L. J., Butler, L. T., Sherman, S. M., & St Clair-Thompson, H. (2023). Speech and other language issues. In Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145851-8

In this chapter, we consider how people can perceive and recognise speech. This is harder than you might imagine. Unlike written words which have a space between them, spoken words often run together and, unlike written text, once uttered, the signal... Read More about Speech and other language issues.

Reading (2023)
Book Chapter
Ball, L. J., Butler, L. T., Sherman, S. M., & St Clair-Thompson, H. (2023). Reading. In Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145851-7

Reading is a skill that most of us acquire as children. As adult readers, we are able to read and understand written works of fiction and non-fiction, letters and webpages, newspapers and tweets. How is it we can do this so efficiently and effectivel... Read More about Reading.

Problem solving (2023)
Book Chapter
Ball, L. J., Butler, L. T., Sherman, S. M., & St Clair-Thompson, H. (2023). Problem solving. In Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145851-2

Humans are excellent problem solvers. In this chapter, we explore what we mean by a problem, and we look at examples of both simple and more complex problems. We also consider the representations and processes that people use to solve them. We explor... Read More about Problem solving.

Perception (2023)
Book Chapter
Ball, L. J., Butler, L. T., Sherman, S. M., & St Clair-Thompson, H. (2023). Perception. In Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145851-12

We take it for granted that we can recognise the things in our environment, like the words on this page or a person across the room. But how do we receive information from our senses and then recognise people and objects, to interact with the world a... Read More about Perception.

Memory and forgetting (2023)
Book Chapter
Ball, L. J., Butler, L. T., Sherman, S. M., & St Clair-Thompson, H. (2023). Memory and forgetting. In Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145851-9

Every day we encounter a huge amount of information. But how much of it can we remember? How do we remember? And why do we sometimes forget? This chapter introduces models of the architecture of memory, at the heart of which is a distinction between... Read More about Memory and forgetting.