Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology

Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology is a state-of-the-art review of neural network modelling in core areas of cognitive psychology including: memory and learning, language (written and spoken), cognitive development, cognitive control, attention and action.

This book, the second of three volumes, concentrates on peripheral nervous system disorders.

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First published in 1984, Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution aims to delineate a theory of human nature, viewed as an interrelated set of genetically programmed behavioral predispositions, and a theory of biocultural evolution.

Advances in the Study of Behavior

This exciting collection tours virtual reality in both its current therapeutic forms and its potential to transform a wide range of medical and mental health-related fields.

Freedom of thought is one of the great and venerable notions of Western thought, often celebrated in philosophical texts - and described as a crucial right in American, European, and International Law, and in that of other jurisdictions.

When Crime and Personality was first published in 1964, J.

Cognitive neuropsychology has now established a major place in the teaching of undergraduate psychology degrees and is an important topic of postgraduate research.

Originally published in 1987, Aphasia Therapy surveys the approaches to aphasia treatment from throughout the world that have been taken both in the past and in the present day.

Using novel, bioethical framing alongside critical and comprehensive analysis of harm reduction approaches, this cutting-edge book addresses the multifaceted and transdisciplinary issue of drug addiction in society, exploring how addiction can be conceptualized from various disciplinary perspectives for positive policy outcomes.

Interoception is the body-to-brain axis of sensations that originates from the internal body and visceral organs.

At the age of twenty eight Gary was assaulted by a gang with baseball bats and a hammer, resulting in several skull fractures and severe brain damage.

First Published in 1988.

Muffin is a quirky little fish full of fun ideas.

Research into reading development and reading disabilities has been dominated by phonologically guided theories for several decades.

A groundbreaking study into the formative role of play in our livesSergio and Vivien Pellis have synthesized three decades of empirical research to create a remarkable work, unequalled in its field.

Providing a personal overview of hemispheric differences in human cognitive activity, Professor Efron is selective in his presentation of significant issues.

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal.

Dendrites are complex neuronal structures that receive and integrate synaptic input from other nerve cells.

The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes provides a unique and integrative introduction to dream science.

Individuals of Asian descent are a demographic often overlooked in mainstream body image scholarship.

During the twentieth century, new neurobehavioral diseases appeared or were described for the first time.

Principles of Addiction provides a solid understanding of the definitional and diagnostic differences between use, abuse, and disorder.

The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions.

The importance of facial expressions has led to a steadily growing body of empirical findings and theoretical analyses.

An Essential Guide to Hearing and Balance Disorders consolidates the most significant clinical aspects of hearing and balance disorders, ranging from cause and diagnosis to treatment and cure.

To effectively serve minority clients, clinicians require a double understanding: of both evidence-based practice and the cultures involved.

Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax presents a groundbreaking approach to the study of sentence formation.

Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders.

This book aims to give the state-of-the-art of intraoperative brain function mapping for resection of brain tumors in awake conditions, and to become a reference for acquiring the fundamental expertise necessary to select the right intraoperative task at the right time of the surgery.

Raising a child with ADHD can be distressing and exhausting for the whole family.

This book presents a flexible Bayesian framework for combining neural and cognitive models.

This book argues that contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy.

"e;This book brings together excellent contributions spanning the historic basis of neuropsychology in forensic practice, ethical and legal issues, and practical instruction.

This volume covers a broad range of current research topics addressing the function of visuospatial attention and working memory.

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc.

This volume presents the findings of a large-scale study of individual differences in spoken (and heard) language development during the school years.

Control processes are those mental functions that allow us to initiate, monitor, and prioritize mental activities.

Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field.

A neural network view of the processes involved in classical conditioning using computational simulations to analyse actual experimental data.

This book is about the possibilities and achievements of children, adolescents and adults who have developmental disorders that make their development of speech difficult or very delayed and who therefore need to develop communication and language with other means than speech.

This book argues that contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy.

Social Justice and Counseling represents the intersection between therapy, counseling, and social justice.

Originally published in 1982, this volume deals with behavioral medicine and clinical psychology.

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.

Originally published in 1989, this sourcebook for anatomic studies in the neuropsychology of visual perception contains chapters on disorders of visual agnosias, impaired object perception and spatial neglect, and abnormal visual imagery.

International Series of Monographs in Experimental Psychology, Volume 16: Aspects of Motion Perception details the fundamental concepts of the visual system perception of motion.

Over the years there has been growing interest among the scientific community in investigating sleep and how it affects the memory and other brain functions.