Neuropsychological Research: A Review

by Marien; Peter

• ISBN13: 9781841696201
• ISBN10: 184169620X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-25
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

In a broad sense, neuropsychology stands for the branch of brain sciences that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to specific cognitive and psychological processes. The idea of developing a research field somewhere between neurology and cognitive psychology emerged in the 1960s as a result of studies conducted by both disciplines which, although using different methodologies and tools, were analysing the same issues. Neuropsychology particularly puts emphasis on the clinical and experimental study of the cognitive effects of brain injury or neurological diseases, taking models of normal cognitive functioning into account. Neuropsychological Research: A Reviewprovides a meticulous overview of what has been achieved in the field of cognitive neuropsychology from its early beginnings in the 1960s and 1970s to the present day. Authors include some of the pioneers involved in the genesis of neuropsychology as an independent and distinct field of neuroscience. The comprehensive coverage includes language disorders, skilled movement disorders, recognition disorders, attentional and executive disorders, visuo-perceptual disorders, memory disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases. This fascinating text forms an enjoyable tribute to the rich heritage of neuropsychology, and will be essential reading for researchers and students of neuropsychology, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, and behavioural neuroscience.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Homage to Luigi Amedeo Vignolo	p. 7
Dedication to a pioneer in neuropsychology	p. 9
Approaching the brain	p. 15
A multiplicity of intelligences	p. 17
Neural circuitry underlying language	p. 25
Structural and functional neuroimaging in neuropsychology: a concise overview	p. 51
Language disorders	p. 73
Information-processing models of aphasia: updating the diagram makers	p. 75
The impact of right-hemisphere lesions on language abilities: theoretic and clinical perspectives	p. 93
Acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia	p. 113
Developmental dyslexia: from neuropsychology to genetics, and back again	p. 127
Aphasia recovery: neural mechanisms	p. 137
Aphasia rehabilitation	p. 147
Skilled movement, music, and number-processing disorders	p. 159
The forelimb apraxias	p. 161
Should we make aphasic patients sing?	p. 185
The neuropsychology of calculation and number processing	p. 201
Modality-specific recognition disorders	p. 229
Perceptual categorization: language and thought	p. 231
Visual agnosia	p. 249
Auditory agnosia	p. 267
Somaesthetic recognition disorders	p. 285
Neglect, attentional, and executive disorders	p. 305
Subcortical neglect	p. 307
Neuropsychology of attention	p. 331
Measuring human cognition online by electrophysiological methods: the case of selective attention	p. 349
The frontal lobe: executive, emotional, and neurological functions	p. 379
Memory disorders and neurodegenerative diseases	p. 409
Memory: structure, function, and dysfunction	p. 411
Effects of aging and dementia on memory	p. 437
Semantic dementia: the story so far	p. 471
Frontal lobe dysfunction across diagnostic dementia categories	p. 491
Concluding remarks	p. 511
Concluding remarks	p. 513
Author index	p. 515
Subject index	p. 541
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