Bryan Kolb - Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology

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FUNDAMENTALS OF

Eighth Edition

• BRYAN KOLB & IAN Q. WHISHAW
• University of Lethbridge

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Bryan Kolb received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University and conducted postdoctoral work at the University of Western Ontario and the Montreal Neurological Institute. In 1976, he moved to the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, where he is a professor of neuroscience. His current research examines how preconception and perinatal factors including tactile stimulation, psychoactive drugs, stress, noise, and injury modify the developing cerebral cortex and how these changes are related to behavior. Kolb is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA); the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS); the American Psychological Association; and the Association of Psychological Science. Currently a fellow of the Child Brain Development program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, he is a recipient of the Hebb Prize from the CPA and CSBBCS. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of British Columbia, Thompson Rivers University, Concordia University, and the University of Lethbridge. He is a recipient of the Ingrid Speaker Gold Medal for research, the distinguished teaching medal from the University of Lethbridge, and the Key to the City of Lethbridge. In 2017, he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada. He and his wife train and show horses in Western riding performance events.

Ian Q. Whishaw received his Ph.D. from Western University and is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Strasbourg. He is a fellow of Clair Hall, Cambridge, the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of the Canadian Humane Society Bronze Medal for bravery, the Ingrid Speaker Gold Medal for research, the distinguished teaching medal from the University of Lethbridge, and the Donald O. Hebb Prize. He has received the Key to the City of Lethbridge and has honorary doctorates from the University of British Columbia, Thompson Rivers University, and the University of Lethbridge. His research addresses the evolution and neural basis of skilled movement and the neural basis of brain disease. The Institute for Scientific Information includes him in its list of most-cited neuroscientists. His hobby is training and showing horses for Western performance events.

• PART I Background

• PART II Cortical Functions and Networks

• PART III Higher Functions

• PART IV Plasticity and Disorders

Coverage links neuropsychological theory and assessment

• PART I Background

• PART II Cortical Functions and Networks

• PART III Higher Functions

• PART IV Plasticity and Disorders

Looking back to 1980, when the first edition of Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology was produced, reminds us that as we were writing the book in the late 1970s, human neuropsychology did not yet exist as a unified body of knowledge about the human brain. The field had coalesced around hunches and inferences based on laboratory studies of monkeys, cats, and rats, as well as on scattered studies of humans with assorted brain injuries. Over the past 40 years, as neuropsychology has expanded, cognitive neuroscience, social neuroscience, and computational neuroscience have emerged as new disciplines. Our understanding of brain anatomy and function have vastly improved through advances in the ever-more-incisive use of noninvasive neuroimaging and other technical innovations and the generation of an abundant body of research.

Studies of nonhuman species remain central to human neuropsychologys core principles especially in understanding the structure and connectivity of the primate brain but these studies focus more on mechanisms than on behavioral phenomena. Many researchers today share a bias that functional neuroimaging can replace the study of brain-injured humans and laboratory animals. To others, this outcome seems unlikely, given the complexity of brain processes as well as limitations on examining brain organization and function at a molecular level. Human and nonhuman studies are complementary, and this eighth edition reflects their continuing intellectual evolution as the knowledge base rapidly grows: