The role of the prefrontal cortex is one of the most topical and important areas of research in contemporary neuropsychology. This cortical region appears to be linked with executive processes affecting many diverse areas of cognitive function. Working memory, information processing, behavioural organization, attention, judgement, and the ability to cope with novel experiences are just some of the diverse processes it affects. This book brings together contributions from some of the world's leading researchers on the prefrontal cortex. They discuss the many recent theoretical and technical advances in the field - for example in our understanding of the neural architecture of the prefrontal cortex, in the development of comparable texts of cognition in humans and other primates, in our understanding of the relationships between neuronal activity and behaviour, and in the increasing use of functional neuroimaging to identify different levels of organization within the prefrontal cortex. These important developments make this an ideal time to address the many questions and debates that have arisen about the role and functional organization of this area of the brain. One of the first books to be written on the subject, The Prefrontal Cortex is a state-of-the-art account of our knowledge of this exciting subject. It will be welcomed by all researchers and students in neuro- and cognitive psychology, and neuroscience.

Harry and Amy meet at a university student dance in 1965 and fall instantly in love. But Amy already has a steady well-to-do boyfriend back home in the Midlands, and both have their own different personal agendas: Amy to escape the penury of her upbringing, and Harry to make it in the fickle world of pop music. Is their destiny to live together happily ever after or is a different future mapped out for the two young lovers? And what is the secret history that somehow seems to seal their fate?

When Richard Greensmith, happily married senior lecturer at Foxton University, agrees to go away on a short boys' trip to Edinburgh with his philandering friend Nicholas, he has little idea of the radical changes that are about to take place in his life. Set in the early eighties, 'While Herding Cats' is a campus novel, a buddy story and a tale of love and infidelity, set against a bacgdrop of ambition, corruption and blackmail in a provincial university.