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Words and Things: Cognitive Neuropsychological Studies in Tribute to Eleanor M. Saffran - A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology (Hardcover)
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Words and Things: Cognitive Neuropsychological Studies in Tribute to Eleanor M. Saffran - A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology (Hardcover)
Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology
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To understand mental function, we need to uncover the
representations and processes underlying our ability to comprehend
and to produce words, sentences, numbers and objects (or pictures
of them). The unique contribution of the field of cognitive
neuropsychology is the investigation of these representations and
processes in individuals who have sustained selective brain damage.
Indeed, studies of such individuals provide a window into the
mental system and allow us to explore the functional architecture
that is necessary and sufficient for cognition.
This special issue of "Cognitive Neuropsychology "is a collection
of papers that exemplifies this type of cognitive neuropsychology
research. It is designed to honour and pay tribute to Eleanor M.
Saffran, one of the pioneers of this discipline, who adopted this
approach in her wide-ranging investigations of individuals with
cognitive impairment following brain damage.
The papers included in this collection all explore issues
concerning behavioural and neural mechanisms mediating cognition
and are divided into four separate sections. Two of these focus on
language, with the emphasis of the first on single word recognition
and the second on processes that are invoked beyond the single word
level. Conceptual and semantic processes are covered in a third
section and the final section is concerned with issues related to
more peripheral processes, which, when impaired, give rise to
alexia, agnosia and/or agraphia. This extensive collection of
papers represents a comprehensive overview of the current state of
the field and the papers elucidate the most recent findings in the
domain of cognitive neuropsychology.
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