Cognitive Neuropsychology Books

New and Published Books

1. Single-case and Small-n Experimental Designs

   A Practical Guide To Randomization Tests, Second Edition

   By Pat Dugard, Portia File, Jonathan Todman

   This practical guide explains the use of randomization tests and provides example designs and macros for implementation in IBM SPSS and Excel. It reviews the theory and practice of single-case and small-n designs so readers can draw valid causal inferences from small-scale clinical studies. The...

   Published October 26th 2011 by Routledge Academic
2. The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition

   By Jamie Ward

   Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and...

   Published January 3rd 2010 by Psychology Press
3. Cognitive Neuroscience

   Edited by Jamie Ward

   Series: Critical Concepts in Psychology

   Standing at the junction of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, cognitive neuroscience seeks to provide brain-based accounts of mental functions such as language, memory, perception, action, emotions, and decision-making. Its emergence as a coherent discipline came about relatively recently...

   Published June 29th 2009 by Routledge
4. Letter Recognition: From Perception to Representation

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   Edited by Matthew Finkbeiner, Max Coltheart

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   Detailed computational modelling of reading has been much pursued in the past twenty years, and several specific computational models of visual word recognition and reading aloud have been developed. These models offer computational accounts of many aspects of reading, but all have neglected the...

   Published June 22nd 2009 by Psychology Press
5. Integrative Approaches to Perception and Action

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   Edited by Nicola Bruno, P. Paolo Battaglini

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   The special issue aims at providing a forum for empirical and theoretical research on the integration of perceptual and motor processes in the human mind. Integrative approaches to perception and action have proved fruitful in several areas, including large-scale questions pertaining to the...

   Published December 3rd 2008 by Psychology Press
6. The Mental Lexicon

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   Edited by Michele Miozzo

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   This special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology presents a series of neuropsychological and neuro-imagining studies investigating the mental lexicon – its functional organization, its access in speech production and comprehension, and its neural underpinnings....

   Published August 30th 2008 by Psychology Press
7. Neuropsychological Research

   A Review

   Edited by Peter Mariën, Jubin Abutalebi

   In a broad sense, neuropsychology stands for the branch of brain sciences that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to specific cognitive and psychological processes. The idea of developing a research field somewhere between neurology and cognitive psychology...

   Published February 6th 2008 by Psychology Press
8. Cognitive Reserve

   Theory and Applications

   Edited by Yaakov Stern

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   Cognitive reserve has emerged as a powerful concept for interpreting individual differences in susceptibility to, and recovery from, brain injury or pathology. Underlying cognitive reserve is the idea that individual differences in how cognitive tasks are mediated in the brain allow some people to...

   Published October 29th 2006 by Psychology Press
9. Inhibitory After-Effects in Spatial Processing: Experimental and Theoretical Issues on Inhibition of Return

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   Edited by Paolo Bartolomeo, Juan Lupiáñez

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   When responding to a suddenly appearing stimulus, we are slower and/or less accurate when the stimulus occurs at the same location of a previous event, as compared to when it appears in a new location. This phenomenon, often called Inhibition of Return (IOR), has fostered a huge amount of research...

   Published October 4th 2006 by Psychology Press
10. Mild Cognitive Impairment

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Holly A. Tuokko, David F. Hultsch

    Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

    Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) has been identified as an important clinical transition between normal aging and the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Since treatments for AD are most likely to be most effective early in the course of the disease, MCI has become a topic of great importance...

    Published September 13th 2006 by Psychology Press