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Development of the Child’s Brain and Behavior
Perhaps the central issue in neuropsychology over the past 100 years has been the question of how psychological functions are represented in the brain.
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Attentional Capacities in Children with Autism: Is There a General Deficit in Shifting Focus?
Twenty-three children with autism and two control groups completed an attention battery comprising three versions of the continuous performance test (CPT), a digit cancellation task, the Wisconsin Card Sorting...
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Assessment of Attention across the Lifespan
Whenever the human central nervous system is compromised, whether as the result of disease, trauma, fatigue, or intoxication, the higher cognitive functions suffer. This cognitive machinery is typically descri...
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The Problems of Prognosis
This chapter discusses the issues involved when a neuropsychologist undertakes the difficult proposition of predicting the limits of functional recovery in a person who has suffered brain damage. We shall revi...
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An examination of prefrontal lesion size and the effects of cortical grafts on performance of the Morris water task by rats
We studied the effects of prefrontal cortex lesions and prefrontal cortical grafts on the performance of rats in the Morris water task. Adult male rats received cortical tissue grafts (E21) 2 weeks after aspir...
