From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure

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Paperback | 27 March 1989

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As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive difficulties arising from neurological damage and disease. He distinguishes two types of theories of normal function - primarily modular and primary non-modular - and argues that the problems of making valid inferences about normal function from studies of brain-damaged subjects are more severe for the latter. He first analyzes five well-researched areas in which some modularity can be assumed: short-term memory, reading, writing, visual perception, and the relation between input and output language processing. His aim is to introduce the methods about normal function mirror ones derived directly from studies of normal subjects and indeed at times preceded them. He then more theoretically examines these inferences, from group studies and individual case studies to modular and non-modular systems. Finally, he considers five areas where theories of normal function are relatively undeveloped and neuropsychology provides counterintuitive phenomena and guides to theory-building: the organization of semantic systems, visual attention, concentration and will, episodic memory, and consciousness.

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"The meticulous analyses of the methods and inferences used to draw conclusions about normal cognition from studies of abnormal cognition make it crucial as a contribution to cognitive neuropsychology." Science "...a tour-de-force...will very rapidly become required reading." The Times Higher Education Supplement

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Non-Fiction Psychology Physiological & Neuro-Psychology, Biopsychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology Other Branches of Medicine Psychiatry Medicine in General Health Systems & Services Mental Health Services

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Published: 27th March 1989

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Preface
Introducing cognitive neuropsychology
Converging operations: specific syndromes and evidence from normal subjects
Inferences from neuropsychological findings
Central processes: equipotentiality or modularity?
References
Subject index
Author index
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