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Comparative Neuropsychology is a collection of state-of-the-art essays by some of the world's leading neuropsychologists. It is prepared as a tribute to the late George Ettlinger, one of the leading figures in comparative neuropsychology research over the last 40 years, and reflects current research in the many areas where Ettlinger made a particular contribution to our understanding. Taking as their starting point the assumption that the human brain shares many of its most important functional systems with its primate relatives, the authors take a comparative evolutionary approach to understanding human cognition and brain function. The book's fifteen chapters cover a wide range of subject areas, including memory, visual and somatosensory perception, motor control, attention, cross-modality integration, interhemispheric transmission, and behavioural intelligence. The final chapters of the book critically discuss questions basic to the comparative enterprise: whether we can in fact apply concepts derived from human cognitive psychology to primate neuropsychology, and whether there are evolutionary discontinuities in cortical brain structure among the higher primate species. One of the first and most comprehensive books to be written on the topic, Comparative Neuropsychology forms a fascinating and wide-ranging collection. It will be read by undergraduate and post-graduate students in psychology, neuroscience, and neuropsychology, as well as researchers in those areas.

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Author:   A. David Milner (Professor, Department of Psychology, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.686kg
ISBN:  

9780198524113

ISBN 10:   0198524110
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   19 March 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: A D Milner: Introduction: comparative neuropsychology 2: A W Young: Sensory factors in human visual agnosia 3: A Cowey, P Dean, & L Weiskrantz: Ettlinger at Bay: can visual agnosia be explained by low-level visual impairments? 4: E A Murray, L. Malkova, & S Goulet: Cross-modal associations, intramodal associations, and object identification in macaque monkeys 5: A D Milner & H C Dijkerman: Visual processing in the primate parietal lobe 6: J M Oxbury & S M Oxbury: Memory and the human temporal lobes 7: A Parker & D Gaffan: Memory systems in primates: episodic, semantic, and perceptual learning 8: M J Eacott: Interhemispheric transfer following partial commissurotomy in man and monkey 9: M A Jeeves: Visual integration in callosal agenesis 10: P Macneilage: Towards a unified view of cerebral hemispheric specializations in vertebrates 11: U Halsband: Brain mechanisms of apraxia 12: M Harvey: Perspectives on visuospatial neglect 13: R W Byrne: Cognition in great apes 14: R M Ridley & H F Baker: Mental representation in human and monkey neuropsychology 15: R E Passingham: The specialization of the human neocortex

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