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Cognitive Approaches to Neuropsychology

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. J. Michael Williams

    1. Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical University, Philadelphia, USA

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  2. Charles J. Long

    1. Memphis State University and University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis, USA

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Part of the book series: Human Neurosychologie (HN)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-1
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  2. Four Computational Models for Investigating Neuropsychological Decision-making

    • Debra L. Long, Arthur C. Graesser, Charles J. Long
    Pages 3-26

  3. Acalculia: Multiplication Fact Retrieval in Normal and Impaired Subjects

    • Helen J. Kahn
    Pages 27-43

  4. Attentional Imbalances following Head Injury

    • Jennifer Sandson, Bruce Crosson, Michael I. Posner, Peggy P. Barco, Craig A. Velozo, Teresa C. Brobeck
    Pages 45-59

  5. Toward a Cognitive Neuropsychology of Complex Learning

    • Jill Booker, Daniel L. Schacter
    Pages 61-81

  6. Aging and Spatial Cognition: Current Status and New Directions for Experimental Researchers and Cognitive Neuropsychologists

    • Kathleen C. Kirasic
    Pages 83-100

  7. An Integrated Approach to the Neuropsychological Assessment of Cognitive Function

    • Robert L. Mapou
    Pages 101-122

  8. Everyday Cognition and the Ecological Validity of Intellectual and Neuropsychological Tests

    • J. Michael Williams
    Pages 123-141

  9. Psychometric Confirmation of Neuropsychological Theory

    • Kurt A. Moehle, Jeffrey L. Rasmussen, Kathleen B. Fitzhugh-Bell
    Pages 143-167

  10. The Role of Motivation in Rehabilitation

    • Murry G. Mutchnick
    Pages 169-187

  11. Brain Imaging: Positron Emission Tomography and Cognitive Functioning

    • Randolph W. Parks, David A. Loewenstein, Jen Y. Chang
    Pages 189-210

  12. Child Neuropsychology and Cognitive Developmental Theory

    • Sam B. Morgan
    Pages 211-228

  13. Neuropsychological Aspects of Simultaneous and Successive Cognitive Processes

    • Seija Äystö
    Pages 229-272

  14. Familial Sinistrality and Syntactic Processing

    • Wayne Cowart
    Pages 273-286

  15. Adult Cognition: Neuropsychological Evidence and Developmental Models

    • Susan Kotler-Cope, Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Wm. Drew Gouvier
    Pages 287-306

  16. Preserved Cognitive Functions in Dementia

    • William W. Beatty
    Pages 307-315

  17. A Preliminary Neuro-cognitive Model of Tactuo-spatial Motor Learning

    • Robert L. Pusakulich, Geri R. Alvis, Jeannette P. Ward
    Pages 317-330

  18. The Neuropsychology of Autobiographical Memory

    • Walter F. Daniel
    Pages 331-355

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 357-361
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About this book

Since its early development, neuropsychology has examined the manner in which cognitive abilities are mediated by the brain. fudeed, all of neuropsy­ chology, and especially clinical neuropsychology, could be subsumed under this general investigation. However, a variety of factors impeded the close as­ sociation of neuropsychologists and cognitive/experimental psychologists. These factors were prominent influences in both camps, which kept the study of cognition away from a consideration of biological foundations and kept neuropsychology theoretically impoverished. In recent years, these factors have diminished and "cognitive neuropsychology" has become a popular term to describe the new movements to join the study of cognition with the study of brain function. The factors which kept these areas separate were manifestations of his­ torical trends and represent a social distance which largely happened by acci­ dent. The first and perhaps most important factor was that early investigators of cognition and brain function were not psychologists. Most were neurolo­ gists or otlier neuroscientists who were excellent observers of behavior fol­ lowing brain injury but had virtually no theoretical context of cognitive psy­ chology, which would allow them to expand and deepen their understanding of the behavior they were observing. As more psychologists who have such a context have observed the consequences of brain disorders, especially aphasia and amnesia, the study of them has become far more comprehensive as theo­ ries of language and memory derived from cognitive psychology have been incorporated into the investigations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical University, Philadelphia, USA

    J. Michael Williams

  • Memphis State University and University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis, USA

    Charles J. Long

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cognitive Approaches to Neuropsychology

  • Editors: J. Michael Williams, Charles J. Long

  • Series Title: Human Neurosychologie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5577-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5579-3Published: 30 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5577-9Published: 14 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 361

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Neuropsychology, Neurosciences

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