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Methods in neuropsychology /
Efforts to relate neuroscience and anatomy with ethology and psychology have involved an ever widening group of scientists from diverse backgrounds and it has become increasingly evident that interaction is harder to arrange. This book is offered as a first attempt to address some of these interdisc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
1986.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Neuropsychologia ;
v. 24, no. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Methods in Neuropsychology; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CHAPTER 1. EDITORIAL METHODS OF INVESTIGATION IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; CHAPTER 2. THE DESCRIPTION AND INTERPRETATION OF APHASIC LANGUAGE DISORDER; INTRODUCTION; SYMPTOMS, SYNDROMES, AND LESION LOCALIZATION; THE RANGE OF DEFICIT; CHANGE AND REHABILITATION; IS IT POSSIBLE TO STUDY 'APHASIA'?; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. LEARNING AND MEMORY DISORDERS AND THEIR ASSESSMENT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BASIC MEMORY DISORDERS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO MORE COMPLEX DISORDERS; 3. REQUIREMENTS TO BE MET BY ADEQUATE TESTS OF MEMORY-THEORETICAL
- 4.REQUIREMENTS TO BE MET BY ADEQUATE TESTS OF MEMORY-CLINICALREFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. MECHANISMS OF VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION: A STUDY IN NORMAL AND BRAIN-DAMAGED SUBJECTS; 1. LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION IN VISUOMOTOR CONTROL; 2. IMPAIRMENTS IN VISUOMOTOR CONTROL FOLLOWING CORTICAL LESIONS; 3. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. DICHOTIC AND DICHHAPTIC TECHNIQUES; KIMURA'S STRUCTURAL MODEL; STIMULUS FACTORS IN DICHOTIC LISTENING; TACTUAL AND DICHHAPTIC STUDIES; MEASURES AND INDICES OF LATERALIZATION; RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF LATERALITY EFFECTS; THE NEED FOR COMPETITIVE STIMULATION: HEMISPACE EFFECTS
- THE ROLE OF ATTENTIONOTHER DETERMINANTS OF LATERALITY EFFECTS: CONCLUDING COMMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. AFFERENT AND EFFERENT MODELS OF VISUAL PERCEPTUAL ASYMMETRIES: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL IMPLICATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PROCEDURE AND STIMULI; 3. MODELS OF PERCEPTUAL ASYMMETRY; 4. THE GENERIC AFFERENT MODEL: AN ORDERED, HIERARCHICAL COMPONENT PROCESS MODEL; 5. PREDICTIONS CONCERNING PERCEPTUAL ASYMMETRIES THAT FOLLOW FROM THE AFFERENT MODELS; 6. METHODS FOR DISTINGUISHING RELATIVE EFFICIENCY FROM INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER INTERPRETATIONS OF PERCEPTUAL ASYMMETRY IN NORMAL PEOPLE
- 7. SOME CLEAR PREDICTIONS FROM SIMPLE MODELS APPLIED TO COMPLEX TASKS8. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF PREDICTIONS; 9. POSSIBLE CRITICISMS OF THE MODEL AND ALTERNATIVES TO IT; 10. WHAT DO PERCEPTUAL ASYMMETRIES MEASURE?; 11. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN VISUAL FIELD ASYMMETRIES; 12. IMPLICATIONS FOR VISUAL LATERALITY RESEARCH ON PATIENTS WITH BRAIN DAMAGE; 13. FUNCTIONAL VS EXCLUSIVE LOCALIZATION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7.CHRONOMETRIC ANALYSIS IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BRAIN LESIONS AND REACTION TIME; 3. THE ANALYSIS OF REACTION-TIME DIFFERENCES
- 4. THE INTERPRETATION OF REACTION-TIME DIFFERENCES5. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8.THE CLINICAL EXAMINATION FOR MOTOR APRAXIA; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9.REGIONAL CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; INTRODUCTION; THE INTRA-ARTERIAL 133Xe INJECTION TECHNIQUE; THE 133Xe INHALATION TECHNIQUE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10.POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; INTRODUCTION; PRINCIPLES OF POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DETERMINATION OF LOCAL GLUCOSE METABOLISM WITH PET; GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN NORMAL HUMAN SUBJECTS