This book is unique in that it gives equal weight to the psychological and neurological approaches to the study of cognitive deficits in patients with brain lesions. The result is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of cognitive skills and abilities that departs from the more usual syndrome approach favored by neurologists and the anti-localizationist perspective of cognitive psychologists.
Gives an introductory account of the core subject matter of cognitive neuropsychology
Provides a comprehensive review of the major deficits of human cognitive function
Offers...
This book is unique in that it gives equal weight to the psychological and neurological approaches to the study of cognitive deficits in patients with...
What is the basis of our ability to assign meanings to words or to objects? Such questions have, until recently, been regarded as lying within the province of philosophy and linguistics rather than psychology. However, recent advances in psychology and neuropsychology have led to the development of a scientific approach to analysing the cognitive bases of semantic knowledge and semantic representations. Indeed, theory and data on the organisation and structure of semantic knowledge have now become central and hotly debated topics in contemporary psychology. This special issue of Memory...
What is the basis of our ability to assign meanings to words or to objects? Such questions have, until recently, been regarded as lying within the pro...