Reflections of a Neuropsychologist: Brushes with Brains

ISBN-13: 9781138481237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 276 str.

John L. Bradshaw

Opis

Reflections of a Neuropsychologist: Brushes with Brains follows the life of an influential neuropsychologist with a fascinating and varied career. Unique in its autobiographical approach, it features up-to-date coverage of research into human evolution, archaeology and neurology.

Recenzje

"Neuropsychology has been a fecund source of insight about the brain and the mind. Modern cognitive neuroscience originated from it. In Reflections of a Neuropsychologist, John L. Bradshaw provides an informed and entertaining account of its origin." --Carlo Umiltà, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Padua, Italy.

O autorze

John L. Bradshaw originally received a scholarship to study Classical Languages at Merton College, Oxford (1958), before transferring to Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy. After two years (1962–1964) as a systems analyst for Imperial Chemical Industries, John completed a PhD in Physiological Psychology at Sheffield University (1967). He then worked at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (1967–1968), before moving to the newly-established Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, rising to a Personal Chair and an Emeritus Professorship. His group has worked on movement, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, human evolution and the evolution of language, praxis and tool use, synaesthesia, spatial representation, embodiment, mirror neuron, phantom limb and many other arcane phenomena.