Neuropsychology explores how cognition and behavior relate to the function of the brain and nervous system, focusing especially on how brain injury or illness affects cognitive and behavioral function, through both experimental and clinical approaches.
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Key DebateNeuropsychology has long debated whether specific cognitive functions are narrowly localized to individual brain regions or instead depend on distributed, coordinated networks, a tension traceable to Lashley's mass-action findings against the localizationist work of Broca, Wernicke and Brodmann, and still visible in the choice between functional-localization and parallel-processing models today. 1 Central QuestionNeuropsychology studies how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system, including how brain injury or illness affects cognitive and behavioral function. 1 Connections
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Generally credited as founding modern neuropsychology.
Pioneering neuropsychologist whose work with patient H.M. mapped memory to specific brain structures.
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Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system.
Cognitive neuropsychology section
An alternative model of the link between mind and brain, such as parallel processing, may have more explanatory power for the workings and dysfunction of the human brain.
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