Comparative Neuropsychology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198524110 ISBN 13: 9780198524113

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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 app

About this title

About the Author:

A. David Milner, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0198524110
• ISBN 13: 9780198524113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Milner A. David