The Neuropsychology of Consciousness is based on a symposium entitled "Consciousness and Cognition: Neuropsychological Perspectives" held at the University of St Andrews, September 1990. The intention was to assemble a group of the major researchers at the forefront of this field. The starting point for the symposium and for the book was the widespread realization that in several areas of human cognition (e.g. visual perception, memory, language comprehension, and attention), the severe and profound impairments due to brain damage that have been described over the past 150 years are often not absolute. In particular, the use of indirect methods of testing may reveal unsuspected preservation of capacities that are undetected by more traditional direct methods. The book opens with a discussion of the epidemic of dissociations and how well the phenomena within either neuropsychology or within normal human experimental psychology map onto each other. This is followed by separate chapters on topics such as blindsight, covert visual processing in patients, face recognition and awareness following brain injury, and the relationship between the study of attention and the understanding of consciousness.

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Publisher

Academic Press

Year

2013

ISBN

9781483257822

Topic

Médecine

Subtopic

Physiologie

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Title page
Table of Contents
FOUNDATIONS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Copyright
CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
Chapter 1: Introduction: Dissociated Issues
Chapter 2: Reflections on Blindsight
Chapter 3: Covert Processing in Different Visual Recognition Systems
Chapter 4: Face Recognition and Awareness After Brain Injury
Chapter 5: Attentional Mechanisms and Conscious Experience
Chapter 6: Understanding Consciousness: Clues from Unilateral Neglect and Related Disorders
Chapter 7: Disorders of Perceptual Awareness–Commentary
Chapter 8: The Distinction Between Implicit and Explicit Language Function: Evidence from Aphasia
Chapter 9: Consciousness and Awareness in Memory and Amnesia: Critical Issues
Chapter 10: Unconscious Influences of Memory: Dissociations and Automaticity
Chapter 11: Automatic Memory Processes in Amnesia: How Are They Mediated?
Chapter 12: Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Language and Memory—Commentary
INDEX