University of Iowa Professor Thomas A. Farmer has co-authored a new book, Cognition, 9th Edition (Wiley). The Cognition textbook has long been authored by Margaret Matlin. After Matlin's recent retirement, Farmer was selected to revise and update the book for its 9th edition release as a co-author. Farmer said in a press release that he fondly remembers reading the 4th edition of Cognition in his own psychology coursework. From the Wiley website: "Margaret Matlin and new co-author Thomas Farmer’s Cognition demonstrates how cognitive processes are relevant to everyday, real-world experiences, and frequently examines how cognition can be applied to other disciplines such as clinical psychology, social psychology, consumer psychology, education, communication, business, medicine, and law. The 9th edition continues to relate cognitive topics to applications in everyday life. This edition is fully updated with research and additional anecdotes. It also includes more research on neuroscience." Thomas A. Farmer is an assistant professor with appointments in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and the Department of Linguistics, both part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He is an affiliate member of the DeLTA Center and the Foreign Language Acquisition, Research, and Education (FLARE) doctoral program, also units of CLAS. He is the director of the Language Processing in Context Laboratory, which seeks to understand the inter-relationships that exist between perception, cognition, and action. The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Iowa is a comprehensive college offering 64 majors in the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. More than 16,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students study each year in the College’s 39 departments, led by professors at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all UI undergraduates through the General Education Program, and confers about 70 percent of the UI's bachelor's degrees each academic year.