Neuropsychology Books

New and Published Books

1. An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition

   Doing and Knowing

   By Barbara L. Davis, Lisa M. Bedore

   The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech. A child’s acquisition of phonology is seen...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Attention in Action

   Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience

   Edited by Glyn Humphreys, Jane Riddoch

   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
3. Scientific Thinking in Speech and Language Therapy

   By Carmel Lum

   Speech and language pathologists, like all professionals who claim to be scientific in their practice, make a public commitment to operate on the basis of knowledge derived in accordance with sound scientific standards. Yet students in communication disorders are given relatively little grounding...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
4. The Orienting Response in Information Processing

   By Heikki Lyytinen, Risto Naatanen, Evgeni N. Sokolov, John Spinks

   This book is a testimony to Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov's years of work in developing knowledge in the areas of perception, information processing and attention, and to the research it has spawned. It presents a historical account of a research program, leading the reader toward a cognitive science...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
5. Language Competence Across Populations

   Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment

   Edited by Yonata Levy, Jeannette C. Schaeffer

   This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development. It presents an attempt to define Specific Language Impairment, relating it to children of normal and disordered language capabilities. The...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
6. Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics

   Four Cornerstones

   Edited by Anne Cutler

   Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence....

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Clinician, the Brain, and 'I'

   Neuroscientific findings and the subjective self in clinical practice

   By Tony Schneider

   Series: Explorations in Mental Health

   The clinician needs to make sense of many client experiences in the course of daily practice: do these experiences reflect the simple product of complex neurochemical activity, or do they represent another dynamic involving the subjective self? When research findings from the neurosciences are...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions

   Explorations in Behaviour and Neuroscience

   Edited by Sven Mattys, Ann Bradlow, Matthew Davis, Sophie Scott

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Speech recognition in ‘adverse conditions’ has been a familiar area of research in computer science, engineering, and hearing sciences for several decades. In contrast, most psycholinguistic theories of speech recognition are built upon evidence gathered from tasks performed by healthy listeners on...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Psychology Press
9. Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages

   Edited by Karen Emmorey

   Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
10. Prediction in Forensic and Neuropsychology

    Sound Statistical Practices

    Edited by Ronald D. Franklin

    Psychologists are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the ecological validity of their assessment procedures--to show that the recommendations concluding their evaluations are relevant to urgent concerns in the legal and social policy arenas, such as predicting dangerousness, awarding...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press