Cognitive Approaches to Neuropsychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-1

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2. Four Computational Models for Investigating Neuropsychological Decision-making

   • Debra L. Long, Arthur C. Graesser, Charles J. Long

   Pages 3-26

3. Acalculia: Multiplication Fact Retrieval in Normal and Impaired Subjects

   • Helen J. Kahn

   Pages 27-43

4. Attentional Imbalances following Head Injury

   • Jennifer Sandson, Bruce Crosson, Michael I. Posner, Peggy P. Barco, Craig A. Velozo, Teresa C. Brobeck

   Pages 45-59

5. Toward a Cognitive Neuropsychology of Complex Learning

   • Jill Booker, Daniel L. Schacter

   Pages 61-81

6. Aging and Spatial Cognition: Current Status and New Directions for Experimental Researchers and Cognitive Neuropsychologists

   • Kathleen C. Kirasic

   Pages 83-100

7. An Integrated Approach to the Neuropsychological Assessment of Cognitive Function

   • Robert L. Mapou

   Pages 101-122

8. Everyday Cognition and the Ecological Validity of Intellectual and Neuropsychological Tests

   • J. Michael Williams

   Pages 123-141

9. Psychometric Confirmation of Neuropsychological Theory

   • Kurt A. Moehle, Jeffrey L. Rasmussen, Kathleen B. Fitzhugh-Bell

   Pages 143-167

10. The Role of Motivation in Rehabilitation

    • Murry G. Mutchnick

    Pages 169-187

11. Brain Imaging: Positron Emission Tomography and Cognitive Functioning

    • Randolph W. Parks, David A. Loewenstein, Jen Y. Chang

    Pages 189-210

12. Child Neuropsychology and Cognitive Developmental Theory

    • Sam B. Morgan

    Pages 211-228

13. Neuropsychological Aspects of Simultaneous and Successive Cognitive Processes

    • Seija Äystö

    Pages 229-272

14. Familial Sinistrality and Syntactic Processing

    • Wayne Cowart

    Pages 273-286

15. Adult Cognition: Neuropsychological Evidence and Developmental Models

    • Susan Kotler-Cope, Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Wm. Drew Gouvier

    Pages 287-306

16. Preserved Cognitive Functions in Dementia

    • William W. Beatty

    Pages 307-315

17. A Preliminary Neuro-cognitive Model of Tactuo-spatial Motor Learning

    • Robert L. Pusakulich, Geri R. Alvis, Jeannette P. Ward

    Pages 317-330

18. The Neuropsychology of Autobiographical Memory

    • Walter F. Daniel

    Pages 331-355

19. Back Matter

    Pages 357-361

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Since its early development, neuropsychology has examined the manner in which cognitive abilities are mediated by the brain. fudeed, all of neuropsy­ chology, and especially clinical neuropsychology, could be subsumed under this general investigation. However, a variety of factors impeded the close as­ sociation of neuropsychologists and cognitive/experimental psychologists. These factors were prominent influences in both camps, which kept the study of cognition away from a consideration of biological foundations and kept neuropsychology theoretically impoverished. In recent years, these factors have diminished and "cognitive neuropsychology" has become a popular term to describe the new movements to join the study of cognition with the study of brain function. The factors which kept these areas separate were manifestations of his­ torical trends and represent a social distance which largely happened by acci­ dent. The first and perhaps most important factor was that early investigators of cognition and brain function were not psychologists. Most were neurolo­ gists or otlier neuroscientists who were excellent observers of behavior fol­ lowing brain injury but had virtually no theoretical context of cognitive psy­ chology, which would allow them to expand and deepen their understanding of the behavior they were observing. As more psychologists who have such a context have observed the consequences of brain disorders, especially aphasia and amnesia, the study of them has become far more comprehensive as theo­ ries of language and memory derived from cognitive psychology have been incorporated into the investigations.

• behavior
• brain
• brain injury
• clinical neuropsychology
• cognition
• cognitive psychology
• memory
• neuropsychology
• psychology

• Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical University, Philadelphia, USA

  J. Michael Williams

• Memphis State University and University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis, USA

  Charles J. Long

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