Book Review: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Theory, Models, Therapy and Outcome

Book reviews COGNITIVE REHABILITATION: AN INTEGRATIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH

This is a good book. For those starting out in the ®eld of cognitive rehabilitation, or long in the tooth clinicians looking to ensure their knowledge is up to date, Sohlberg and Mateer provide a comprehensive review of the state of the science of cognitive rehabilitation. For me, the best bit of the book is the very ®rst chapter. Many introductory chapters to books are disappointingly devoid o...

Book Review: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

Consciousness, with its irreducible subjective character, was almost exclusively a philosophical topic until relatively recently. Today, however, the problem of explaining the felt quality of experience has also become relevant to science and engineering, including robotics andAI: “What would we have to build into a robot so that it really felt the touch of a finger, the redness of red, or the ...

Book Review: Conducting a Culturally Informed Neuropsychological Evaluation

BOOK REVIEW Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory

This collection Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory gives us the broadest perspective yet on this important realist alternative to standard quantum theory. The book treats the history, philosophical rami"cations and consistency of theories arising from Bohm's original model and their relations to other alternative theories. Signi"cantly, it also contains applications of these theories to pract...

Book Review: Stochastic Modeling: Theory and Reality

For decades, actuaries have historically used statistical and financial models that were inherently considered deterministic in the sense that random fluctuations are often ignored, although some type of sensitivity of the parameter and model assumptions have been employed to have a sense of the possible variation in the results. Today, such sensitivity analysis is unacceptably appropriate when...