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1 online resource (363 pages) |
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Psychology Library Editions: Neuropsychology Ser. ; v. 6 |
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Psychology Library Editions: Neuropsychology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I: Basic Issues; 1. A Function for Cognitive Neuropsychology; Introduction; The target: Intellectual skills; A function for cognitive neuropsychology; Alternative views; Function reorganisation due to brain damage; Methodological revision; 2. Does It Rattle When You Shake It? Modularity of Mind and the Epistemology of Cognitive Research; Introduction; Part 1; Part 2; 3. From Models to Neuropsychological Data and Vice Versa; Introduction; Thesis defendae; Dissociations; Error classification |
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Conclusions4. Observations on Theoretical Models in Neuropsychology of Language; Introduction; Shortcomings of information-processing models; How to overcome the shortcomings of information-processing models by using computational models; Conclusions; Part II: Language Comprehension; 5. Automatic Processes in Language Comprehension; Introduction; Automatic and controlled processes; Early and recent models in cognitive psychology; Evidence for automatic processing; Lexical access; Lexical access as an automatic process; An exploratory study on words and picture naming |
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Automatic syntactic computation during language comprehensionSelection of a response for output; Conclusions; 6. Autonomy and Automaticity: Accessing Function Words during Sentence Comprehension; Introduction; Recognition of open class words and closed class words; The experiments; Processing open and closed class items during sentence comprehension: Evidence from normal adults; Children's sensitivity to closed class words: The development of automatic processes; Broca's aphasia: Loss of autonomy or loss of automaticity?; Conclusion |
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7. Sentence-processing Strategies for Broca's Aphasics and Normal Speakers as Reflected by Gaze MovementsIntroduction; Methods; Results; Discussion; 8. Localisation of Aphasia: Science or Fiction; Problems with the deficit memory of language localisation; Deficit-lesion correlation; Discussion; Part III: Reading and Writing; 9. Modelling the Writing Process; Introduction; Writing systems and writing processes; High-level planning of speech and writing; Three theories of spelling; A compromise model; Spelling errors; What is a letter?; Letter-level slips of the pen; Pure dysgraphias |
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10. Acquired Disorders of SpellingSpelling and phonology; Spelling without phonology; The nature of the subcomponents of spelling: What can we learn from patients?; Appendix: Case report; 11. Independence of Access to Meaning and Phonology: Arguments for Direct Non-semantic Pathways for the Naming of Written Words and Pictures; Introduction to frame of reference; Reading through semantics; The peripheral reading strategy; Direct print-to-sound associations; Independence of access to meaning and phonology for written words and pictures: An experimental study; Experiment; Concluding remarks |
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12. Mechanisms for Reading Non-words: Evidence from a Case of Phonological Dyslexia in an Italian Reader |
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Cognition.
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Neuropsychology.
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Cognition
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cognition.
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aphasia.
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brain.
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cognitive disorders.
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comprehension.
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face recognition.
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language.
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memory.
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perception.
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reading and writing.
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Cognition
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Neuropsychology
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Semenza, C
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Bisiacchi, P
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| ISBN |
9781317267997 |
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1317267990 |
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