Neuropsychological Explorations of Memory and Cognition
Essay in Honor of Nelson Butters
Published on 31. December 1994
Book
Hardback
XVIII, 334 pages
978-0-306-44983-3 (ISBN)
Description
Researchers who were influenced by Dr. Nelson Butters contribute articles to this volume to honor him and his thirty-year career. Their contributions reflect how Dr. Butters impacted their current work and offer an historical account of research theory and paradigmatic shifts within the field of cognitive neuropsychology. Researchers, clinicians, and students working in the neurosciences will appreciate this volume.
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Series
Edition
1994 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer Science+Business Media
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
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XVIII, 334 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-44983-3 (9780306449833)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4899-1196-4
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Content
1. Recovery of Function After Serial Lesions of Prefrontal Cortex in the Rhesus Monkey: A Retrospective.- 2. Comparative Neuropsychology: Brain Functions in Nonhuman Primates and Human Neurobehavioral Disorders.- 3. Processing Deficits of Amnesic Patients: Nearly Full Cycle?.- 4. Verbal Priming and Semantic Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: Degraded Representation or Impaired Activation?.- 5. Semantic Memory Deficits Associated with Alzheimer's Disease.- 6. Exploring Disorders of Semantic Memory.- 7. Amnesia, Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.- 8. Identification of Neuropsychologically Defined Subgroups of Alzheimer's Disease Patients.- 9. Contributions of Cognitive Psychology to the Study of Impaired Memory and Attention.- 10. Cognitive Investigations in Huntington's Disease.- 11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Memory Disorders.- 12. The Mammillary Bodies Revisited: Their Role in Human Memory Functioning.- 13. Functioning and Anatomical Specificity of Frontal Lobe Functions.- 14. Recovery of Function After Focal Cerebral Insult: A Pet Activation Study.- 15. Remote Memory in Retrospect.- 16. The Clinical Assessment of Memory Disorders.- 17. Differential Neuropsychology: Identifying Risk Factors for Cognitive Dysfunction in Medically Ill Patients.- 18. Procedural Memory and Rehabilitation.- 19. Psychodynamic Phenomena, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience.- 20. Applying the Neuropsychology of Memory Disorders to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.- 21 Organismic-Developmental Theory and Neuropsychological Research.- 22. Growing up in Neuropsychology.- Bibliography of Nelson Butters, Ph.D..