Neuropsychological Explorations of Memory and Cognition :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Essay in Honor of Nelson Butters
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Laird S. Cermak.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer US : Imprint : Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1994
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(XVII, 334 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Critical issues in neuropsychology
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Recovery of Function After Serial Lesions of Prefrontal Cortex in the Rhesus Monkey: A Retrospective --;2. Comparative Neuropsychology: Brain Functions in Nonhuman Primates and Human Neurobehavioral Disorders --;3. Processing Deficits of Amnesic Patients: Nearly Full Cycle? --;4. Verbal Priming and Semantic Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: Degraded Representation or Impaired Activation? --;5. Semantic Memory Deficits Associated with Alzheimer's Disease --;6. Exploring Disorders of Semantic Memory --;7. Amnesia, Aging and Alzheimer's Disease --;8. Identification of Neuropsychologically Defined Subgroups of Alzheimer's Disease Patients --;9. Contributions of Cognitive Psychology to the Study of Impaired Memory and Attention --;10. Cognitive Investigations in Huntington's Disease --;11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Memory Disorders --;12. The Mammillary Bodies Revisited: Their Role in Human Memory Functioning --;13. Functioning and Anatomical Specificity of Frontal Lobe Functions --;14. Recovery of Function After Focal Cerebral Insult: A Pet Activation Study --;15. Remote Memory in Retrospect --;16. The Clinical Assessment of Memory Disorders --;17. Differential Neuropsychology: Identifying Risk Factors for Cognitive Dysfunction in Medically Ill Patients --;18. Procedural Memory and Rehabilitation --;19. Psychodynamic Phenomena, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience --;20. Applying the Neuropsychology of Memory Disorders to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder --;21 Organismic-Developmental Theory and Neuropsychological Research --;22. Growing up in Neuropsychology --;Bibliography of Nelson Butters, Ph. D.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Researchers who were influenced by Dr. Nelson Butters contribute articles to this volume to honor him and his thirty-year career. Their contributions reflect how Dr. Butters impacted their current work and offer an historical account of research theory and paradigmatic shifts within the field of cognitive neuropsychology.