Introduction to Neuropsychology

INTRODUCTION TO NEUROPSYCHOLOGY Introduction to Neuropsychology SECOND EDITION

Introduction to Pediatric Neuropsychology What Is Pediatric Neuropsychology?

Neuropsychology has its roots in behavioral neurology. Behavioral neurology, which can be traced back to ancient Greece and Egypt (Zillmer, Spiers, & Culbertson, 2008), is a branch of neurology that deals with disorders of higher cognitive functioning (e.g., language, cognition, visual perception). Aristotle referred to the brain, and Herophilus described hydrocephaly and the ventricles of the ...

Introduction to special issue on computational modelling in cognitive neuropsychology.

Recently, Cognitive Neuropsychology altered the statement of the journal’s aims that appears in every issue, the new material expressing an interest in publishing “computational modelling research that is informed by consideration of neuropsychological phenomena”. The journal’s interest in computational models, however, is anything but recent. When Cognitive Neuropsychology was in its first dec...

Meta-analysis in neuropsychology: an introduction.

This special issue is an introduction to meta-analytic approaches, methods, and findings in neuropsychology. The six articles that comprise this issue include a review article, one article examining the statistical power of a specific research literature, and four new meta-analyses on neuropsychological topics. Together these articles provide a user-friendly introduction to meta-analysis in neu...

Introduction: toward a historical/anthropological approach in neuropsychology.

Anthropology has striven to adequately understand what human living conditions were like 10000, 20000 or 100 000 years ago. Stone Age (usually divided into the Old Stone or Paleolithic Age, and New Stone or Neolithic Age) extended until some 6000-7000 years ago (Hours, 1982). Agriculture appeared some 10 000 years ago; the first cities some 6000 years ago; the first civilizations about 5000 yea...