Keith James Holyoak

Jordan Grafman

François Boller

This volume contains papers that deal with the structure and functions of the human prefrontal cortex, including a review of recent work on its neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neural development and degeneration, and neuropsychology. In addition, papers focus on novel and competing theories of human prefrontal cortical functions, utilising convergent evidence from the fields of comparative neuropsychology, cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, neuropsychiatry, and cognitive neuropsychology. The book provides a broad overview on the subject of the human prefrontal cortex and integration of human prefrontal cortical functioning, and offer in-depth comparisons of alternative testable theories of human prefrontal cortical functions.

Structure and Functions of the Human Prefrontal Cortex

F. Boller

In recent years there has been an enormous increase in interest into disorders of higher cortical functions and into brain-behavior relationships. The Handbook of Neuropsychology has been planned as a reference source that will provide for the first time comprehensive and current coverage of both experimental and clinical aspects of neuropsychology. The chapter authors have produced in-depth reviews that go beyond a summary of their results and points of view. Each chapter is up-to-date, covering the latest developments in methodology and theory. Discussion of bedside evaluations, laboratory techniques, as well as theoretical models are all to be found in the Handbook. In addition, the editors have attempted to make the Handbook as coherent as possible by encouraging minimal overlap in topic matter. The first section introduces historical developments in neuropsychology, approaches to the clinical and experimental assessment of higher cortical functions, as well as statistical and methodological issues. In addition, the introduction covers cerebral dominance, and specialization as well as models of cognition. Section 2 (Topic Editor: Professor G.Rizzolatti) deals with normal and disordered attentional processes in experimental animals and in humans. Section 3 (Topic Editor: Professor H. Goodglass) encompasses language, aphasia, and related disorders; it is shared over Volumes 1 and 2. This section emphasizes both the classical syndromes of aphasic disorders as well as the contribution of modern neurolinguistics. Special issues include bilingual and polyglot aphasia, disorders of sign-language, aphasia in left-handers, as well as recovery and therapy of aphasia. This section concludes with chapters on disorders of gestural behavior and apraxia.

Handbook of Neuropsychology

Hardbound. Volume 10 of this essential reference source includes two sections. Section 14 covers event related potentials and their relation to cognition. Following a chapter on methodology, the section develops the applications of ERP to the study of attention, language and memory. The section also reviews ERP changes in the developing brain, aging and dementia, head injuries and psychopathology. Section 15 deals with Positron Emission Tomography. Following two introductory chapters on methodology, the section includes chapters on the prefrontal cortex and psychosis, learning, memory and aging. The concluding chapter deals with PET investigations in non-human primates.

Hardbound. Presented here is the eleventh and last volume of this edition of the renowned Handbook of Neuropsychology. The Handbook has become an essential reference source for clinicians such as neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, as well as for scientists engaged in research in the neurosciences. The Handbook is a reference source providing comprehensive and current coverage of experimental and clinical aspects of Neuropsychology.Innovations that have radically modified this discipline in the last few years are included in the last few volumes of the Handbook of Neuropsychology. Section 16 of the current and final volume deals with the complex relationship between motor control and cognition. Section 17 deals with emergent techniques in Neuropsychology, while Section 18 reflects on some aspects of the continuing and vexing problem of consciousness and awareness.

BEHRMANN

Volume four of the all-new "Handbook of Neuropsychology" addresses the disorders of visual behaviour. This work reviews the neurophysiology of spatial vision, as well as recent work on recognition deficits for faces, objects and words. Also presented are disorders of spatial representation, of colour processing and of mental imagery. Balint's syndrome, blindsight, and visuospatial or constructional disorders are discussed and the relationship between eye movements and brain damage are described in detail.

François Boller

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