Cognitive Psychology Arena

Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Assessment

Theory and Practice

• By Victor Nell

This is a book for all neuropsychologists who are called upon to assess culturally different clients--with very few exceptions today, this means every neuropsychologist. In...

Published November 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Clinician's Guide To Neuropsychological Assessment

• Edited by Rodney D. Vanderploeg

Neuropsychological assessment is a difficult and complicated process. Often, experienced clinicians as well as trainees and students gloss over fundamental problems or fail to consider...

Published October 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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The Autonomous Brain

A Neural Theory of Attention and Learning

• By Peter M. Milner

The behaviorist credo that animals are devices for translating sensory input into appropriate responses dies hard. The thesis of this pathbreaking book is that the...

Published July 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Processes and Disorders

• By David Groome

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and Nicola Towell.

An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a comprehensive textbook...

Published April 29th 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Explorations in Cognitive Neuropsychology

• By Alan Parkin

Cognitive neuropsychology has now established a major place in the teaching of undergraduate psychology degrees and is an important topic of postgraduate research. The subject...

Published February 8th 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Perception and Action: Recent Advances in Cognitive Neuropsychology

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Jean Decety

Perception and Action have long been considered as two separate information processes and have accordingly been investigated in relative isolation from one another. However, it...

Published January 25th 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Metacognition and Cognitive Neuropsychology

Monitoring and Control Processes

• Edited by Giuliana Mazzoni, Thomas O. Nelson

Control processes are those mental functions that allow us to initiate, monitor, and prioritize mental activities. They are crucial to normal mental functioning. A better...

Published August 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Neuropsychological Perspectives on Affective and Anxiety Disorders

A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

• Edited by Richard J. Davidson

Ironically, in spite of the label "affective disorders", research on affective disorders has little to say about just what is disordered about emotion in these...

Published May 27th 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Brain and Values

Is A Biological Science of Values Possible?

• Edited by Karl H. Pribram

This 5th volume of the Appalachian Conference discusses how the brain processes information, the role of memory and value, and models of creativity. It pursues...

Published May 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention

A Developmental Perspective

• Edited by John E. Richards

This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental changes that occur in the brain-attention...

Published April 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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