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Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology

What Deficits Reveal About the Human Mind

• By Brenda Rapp

• Price: $52.95 $47.66
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 668
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 14th December 2001
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-044-5

About the Book

This volume reviews the full range of cognitive domains that have benefited from the study of deficits. Chapters covered include language, memory, object recognition, action, attention, consciousness and temporal cognition.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Foundations. M. Coltheart, Assumptions and Methods in Cognitive Neuropsychology. O. Selnes, Contributions from the Study of Deficits to Our Understanding of Brain Function: A Historical Overview. Part 2. Objects. M.J. Riddoch, G. Humphreys, Recognizing and Identifying Objects. E. de Haan, Face Recognition. Part 3. Attention. C. Umilta, Mechanisms of Attention. M. Farah, Consciousness. Part 4. Words. A. Hillis, The Organization of Lexical Knowledge. W. Badecker, Allen, Morphology: The Internal Structure of Words. B. Rapp, J. Folk, Reading Words. M. Tainturier, B. Rapp, Spelling Words. L. Nickels, Spoken Word Production. Part 5. Sentences. R. Martin, Understanding Sentences. R. Berndt, Producing Sentences. T. Gollan, J. Kroll, Bilingualism. Part 6. Memory. A. Parkin, Memory Systems. J. Shelton, A. Caramazza, Semantic Categories. D. Schacter, C. Dodson, Constructive Processes in Memory. Part 7. Space, Time, Numerosity and Music. M. Noel, Numerical Cognition. I. Peretz, Musical Cognition. M. McCloskey, Spatial Frames of Reference. J. Mangels, R. Ivry, Temporal Processing. Part 8. Actions and Plans. L. Buxbaum, B. Coslett, Motor Programming and Execution. G. Humphreys, Planning and Executing Complex Action Sequences. Part 9. Future Directions. M. McCloskey, Future Directions.