Cortical Functions (Routledge Modular Psychology)

✍ Scribed by John Stirling

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cortical Functions is a companion to Kevin Silber's series title, The Physiological Basis of Behaviour and concentrates on the cerebral cortex, its structure, connections, functions and dysfunctions. John Stirling includes clinical descriptions and case studies to illustrate various forms of agnosia, aphasia and the split brain syndrome. Methods in neuropsychology are reviewed and other chapters provide comprehensive but straightforward coverage of the role of the brain in language, sensation, perception and movement.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
The brain and psychological functioning......Page 18
The structure of the brain......Page 26
Methods in neuropsychology......Page 44
Lateralisation......Page 56
Sensory and motor function......Page 78
Language and the brain......Page 94
Visual mechanisms and perception......Page 110
Three research reports......Page 138
Study aids......Page 144
Glossary......Page 158
References......Page 166
Index......Page 172