Título : | Fundamentals of human neuropsychology | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | Autores: | Bryan Kolb, Autor ; Ian Q. Whishaw, Autor | Mención de edición: | 5ta. ed. | Editorial: | Nueva York [Estados Unidos] : Worth | Fecha de publicación: | 2003 | Número de páginas: | 763 p | Il.: | il | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 978-0-7167-5300-1 | Idioma : | Inglés (eng) | Clasificación: | [Palabras claves]CEREBRO [Palabras claves]CONDUCTA-PSICOLOGÍA [Palabras claves]NEUROPSICOLOGÍA
| Resumen: | When we embarked on Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology in 1977, we could not imagine how much the field would change in the next 25 years. An exciting development in neuropsychology has been the use of neuroimaging as a research tool, and we have increased the emphasis on neuroimaging in this new edition in a variety of ways. First, an entire chapter deals with neuroimaging technology, bringing together all the major techniques for studying the living brain in one place. Second, we feature a "Snapshot" of imaging in each of the core neuropsychology chapters (Chapters 8 through 27) and in Chapters 6 and 7. Third, when appropriate we include tables summarizing neuroimaging findings on different topics, such as cerebral asymmetry and frontal-lobe function. Fourth, discussions of neuroimaging studies naturally led to the incorporation of more cognitive neuroscience. As basic neuroscientists, however, our emphasis remains on the neural mechanisms underlying relations between brain and behavior, rather than on cognitive theories that more naturally belong in textbooks dealing with cognitive neuroscience. Another major feature of this edition is a completely new illustration program. We, in conjunction with John Woolsey, with whom we have collaborated in the past, developed an expansive and, we believe, exceptional set of illustrations that, hand in hand with our words, describes and illuminates the world of the brain. The illustrations in every chapter are consistent and reinforce one another, with a second color being used to great advantage. Readers familiar with earlier editions of Fundamentals will find other changes, too. The chapters forming Part V have been reorganized and reintegrated to better correspond with the direction in which the field has been going. In particular, Chapters 23 and 25 focus on brain plasticity, which has become an area of intense experimental interest. Furthermore, every chapter in the book has been thoroughly revised with an emphasis on what we judged to be major advances since 1995. |
Fundamentals of human neuropsychology [texto impreso] / Bryan Kolb, Autor ; Ian Q. Whishaw, Autor . - 5ta. ed. . - Nueva York (Estados Unidos) : Worth, 2003 . - 763 p : il. ISBN : 978-0-7167-5300-1 Idioma : Inglés ( eng) Clasificación: | [Palabras claves]CEREBRO [Palabras claves]CONDUCTA-PSICOLOGÍA [Palabras claves]NEUROPSICOLOGÍA
| Resumen: | When we embarked on Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology in 1977, we could not imagine how much the field would change in the next 25 years. An exciting development in neuropsychology has been the use of neuroimaging as a research tool, and we have increased the emphasis on neuroimaging in this new edition in a variety of ways. First, an entire chapter deals with neuroimaging technology, bringing together all the major techniques for studying the living brain in one place. Second, we feature a "Snapshot" of imaging in each of the core neuropsychology chapters (Chapters 8 through 27) and in Chapters 6 and 7. Third, when appropriate we include tables summarizing neuroimaging findings on different topics, such as cerebral asymmetry and frontal-lobe function. Fourth, discussions of neuroimaging studies naturally led to the incorporation of more cognitive neuroscience. As basic neuroscientists, however, our emphasis remains on the neural mechanisms underlying relations between brain and behavior, rather than on cognitive theories that more naturally belong in textbooks dealing with cognitive neuroscience. Another major feature of this edition is a completely new illustration program. We, in conjunction with John Woolsey, with whom we have collaborated in the past, developed an expansive and, we believe, exceptional set of illustrations that, hand in hand with our words, describes and illuminates the world of the brain. The illustrations in every chapter are consistent and reinforce one another, with a second color being used to great advantage. Readers familiar with earlier editions of Fundamentals will find other changes, too. The chapters forming Part V have been reorganized and reintegrated to better correspond with the direction in which the field has been going. In particular, Chapters 23 and 25 focus on brain plasticity, which has become an area of intense experimental interest. Furthermore, every chapter in the book has been thoroughly revised with an emphasis on what we judged to be major advances since 1995. |
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