Cortical functions /

Stirling includes clinical descriptions and case studies to illustrate various forms of agnosia, aphasia and the split brain syndrome.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stirling, John D., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Colección:Routledge modular psychology.
Temas:
Cerebral cortex.
Neuropsychology.
Neuropsychiatry.
Cerebral Cortex > physiology
Mental Processes > physiology
Neuropsychology > methods
Cerebral Cortex
Neuropsychology
Cortex cérébral.
Neuropsychologie.
Neuropsychiatrie.
MEDICAL > Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY > Neuropsychology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Cortical functions
  • Routledge Modular Psychology
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 The brain and psychological functioning
  • Introduction
  • Some history
  • The localisation of function debate
  • The rise and fall of phrenology
  • Interest in aphasia
  • Mass action and equipotentiality
  • Distributed control
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 2 The structure of the brain
  • Introduction
  • The neuron hypothesis
  • Neurons and glia
  • Developmental and ageing aspects
  • Dividing up the nervous system
  • The central nervous system (CNS)
  • The spinal cord
  • The brain stem
  • The midbrain
  • The basal ganglia and limbic system
  • The cortex
  • Sensory, motor and association cortex
  • The lobes of the cortex
  • The frontal lobes
  • The parietal lobes
  • The occipital lobes
  • The temporal lobes
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 3 Methods in neuropsychology
  • Introduction
  • Techniques of measurement of brain structure and function
  • Lesion and ablation
  • Electrical stimulation
  • Electrical recording
  • In-vivo imaging
  • Evaluation of in-vivo techniques
  • Neuropsychological assessment
  • Evaluation of neuropsychological assessment
  • In-vivo imaging in psychiatry
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 4 Lateralisation
  • Introduction
  • Structural differences
  • Neurological cases
  • The split brain syndrome
  • Experimental studies
  • The split brain syndrome and laterality
  • Evaluation of split brain research
  • Callosal agenesis
  • Evaluation of research with acallosal individuals
  • Asymmetries in normal individuals
  • What is lateralised?
  • Evaluation of the 'processing styles' approach
  • Inter-hemispheric transfer via the corpus callosum
  • Developmental aspects
  • Individual differences in brain organisation
  • Handedness
  • Handedness and cognitive function
  • Sex differences
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 5 Sensory and motor function
  • Introduction
  • Reflexes
  • The somatosensory system
  • Somatosensory pathways
  • Somatosensory cortex
  • Secondary and tertiary somatosensory cortex
  • Evaluation of research into the somatosensory system
  • Motor control
  • The cerebral cortex and movement
  • Initiating movement
  • Empirical support for the hierarchical model
  • Sub-cortical structures and movement
  • Evaluation of motor systems in the mammalian brain
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 6 Language and the brain
  • Introduction
  • Broca's aphasia
  • Wernicke's aphasia
  • Connectionist models of language
  • Evaluation of the neurological approach to language
  • The psycholinguistic approach
  • Neurophysiological approaches
  • Language and laterality
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 7 Visual mechanisms and perception
  • Introduction
  • Sensation and perception
  • Sensory processes: from eye to brain
  • The retina
  • The blind spot
  • The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN.

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