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Vision Without Space
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Psychology Press
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A Case Study in Visual Agnosia Revisited
To See But Not to See Two, 2nd Edition
Visual agnosia is a rare but fascinating disorder of visual object recognition that can occur after a brain lesion. This book documents the case of John, who worked intensively with the authors for 26 years after acquiring visual agnosia following a stroke. It revisits John’s case over twenty years...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Attention in Action
Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience
Series: Advances in Behavioural Brain Science
Over the past forty years much work has assessed how attention modulates perception, but relatively little work has evaluated the role of attention in action. This is despite the fact that recent research indicates that the relation between attention and action is a crucial factor in human...
Published May 6th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Category Specificity in Brain and Mind
Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
Some of the most fascinating deficits in neuropsychology concern the failure to recognise common objects from one semantic category, such as living things, when there is no such difficulty with objects from another, such as non-living things. Over the past twenty years, numerous cases of these '...
Published December 6th 2012 by Psychology Press
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BCoS Cognitive Screen
Following different kinds of brain damage, including stroke, head injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, and degenerative change, people can experience a range of cognitive problems, in addition to any difficulties in motor function. These problems strongly influence a patient’s ability to recover, but...
Published May 7th 2012 by Psychology Press
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Case Studies in the Neuropsychology of Vision
One important means to understanding normal cognitive functions is the study of the breakdown of these functions following brain damage. This book provides reviews of major case studies dealing with the breakdown of visual perception and recognition, including the disorders of motion vision, colour...
Published February 7th 2001 by Psychology Press
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Cognitive Neuropsychology and Cognitive Rehabilitation
Over the past 15 years there have been significant advances in cognitive analysis of many neuropsychological syndromes. In such analyses, investigators aim to understand cognitive deficits in terms of impairments to particular processes within a model of normal cognitive performance. In addition,...
Published March 28th 1994 by Psychology Press