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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 22nd 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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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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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
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BORB
Birmingham Object Recognition Battery
BORB provides a set of standardised procedures for assessing neuropsychological disorders of visual object recognition, based on tests developed in the cognitive neuropsychological literature. The tests are introduced in terms of cognitive neuropsychological analyses of object recognition, and...
Published October 19th 1993 by Psychology Press
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To See But Not To See: A Case Study Of Visual Agnosia
Brain damage may sometimes cause specific impairments in human behaviour. One rare impairment is the failure to recognize everyday objects by sight, a problem which is termed "visual agnosia". In this book, the authors discuss the case of a patient,...
Published December 24th 1987 by Psychology Press