Treatment as a Tool for Investigating Cognition

ISBN-13: 9780367023942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 158 str.

Lyndsey Nickels; Saskia Kohnen; Brenda Rapp

Opis

Cognitive neuropsychological research studies of people with cognitive deficits have typically been directed either at investigating methods of intervention, or at furthering our understanding of normal and impaired cognition. This book reports on research that combines these goals, using studies that use intervention as a ‘tool’ for investigating hypotheses about the functioning of the human cognitive system, and demonstrates that the use of intervention to study cognition is a promising and valuable methodology. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Spis treści

Introduction: Challenges in the use of treatment to investigate cognition  1. Can verbal working memory training improve reading?  2. Intervening to alleviate word-finding difficulties in children: case series data and a computational modelling foundation  3. The nature of facilitation and interference in the multilingual language system: insights from treatment in a case of trilingual aphasia  4. Training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production does not generalize to comprehension: evidence for modality-specific processes  5. Rule-based learning of regular past tense in children with specific language impairment