Cognitive neuropsychology
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Cognitive neuropsychology is a branch of cognitive psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes. It places a particular emphasis on studying the cognitive effects of brain injury or neurological illness with a view to inferring models of normal cognitive functioning. Evidence is based on case studies of individual brain damaged patients who show deficits in brain areas and from patients who exhibit double dissociations. From these studies researchers infer that different areas of the brain are highly specialised. It can be distinguished from cognitive neuroscience which is also interested in brain damaged patients but is particularly focused on uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive processes.
See also
- Capgras delusion
- Clive Wearing
- cognitive bias
- cognitive neuropsychiatry
- Cotard delusion
- emotion and memory
- Erotomania
- face perception
- Fregoli delusion
- HM (patient)
- neuropsychological test
- Phineas Gage
- primary sensory cortex
- prosopagnosia
- retinotopy
- CDR Computerized Assessment System
