Product Description: Provides a broad perspective on psychological research into language processing.

Product Description: Damage to the brain can impair language in many different ways, severely harming some linguistic functions whilst sparing others. To achieve some understanding of the apparently bewildering diversity of language disorders, it is necessary to interpret impaired linguistic performance by relating it to a model of normal linguistic performance...read more

Product Description: This volume presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art account of what is currently known about the psychology of reading. All the fundamental aspects of reading are considered: visual attention, visual feature analysis, visual masking, letter and word recognition, priming effects, eye movements in reading, phonological processing, working memory and reading, parsing, sentence comprehension, and text integration...read more

Product Description: "Deep Dyslexia" has established itself as essential reading for all in the field. This second edition incorporates new research since the book first appeared and brings it fully up-to-date.

Product Description: La bateria EPLA, adaptación española del PALPA, es una batería de tests que puede servir de instrumento de evaluación de las capacidades psicolingüísticas de pacientes adultos con afasias adquiridas. El enfoque desde el que se ha elaborado EPLA es el de la Neuropsicologia Cognitiva y permite a psicólogos y neuropsicólogos, de orientación tanto teórica como aplicada, conocer con bastante detalle las habilidades lingüisticas intactas y las que han sufrido algún deterioro...read more

Product Description: Phonological dyslexia is a form of reading disorder in which the ability to read unfamiliar words, or pronounceable non-words, is selectively deficient. It occurs as both a developmental and an acquired dyslexia. The disorder therefore has implications for our understanding both of how children learn to read and of the architecture of the reading system used for normal skilled reading...read more

Product Description: Pure alexia was the first specific form of acquired dyslexia (reading impairment caused by brain damage) to have been clearly identified; this was done by the French neurologist Dejerine more than a century ago. It has also been called word-form blindness, alexia without agraphia and, more recently, letter-by-letter reading...read more

Product Description: In this book, psychologists and philosophers describe and discuss a range of case studies of delusional beliefs, drawing out general lessons both for the cognitive architecture of the mind and for the notion of rationality, and exploring connections between the delusional beliefs that occur in schizophrenia and the flawed understanding of beliefs that is characteristic of autism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fundamental to this book is an attempt to understand the nature of individual differences in word and nonword reading by connecting three literatures that have developed largely in isolation from one another: the literatures on acquired dyslexia, difficulties in learning to read, and precocious reading...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The journal Cognitive Neuropsychology began publication in 1984. In 2004 a special symposium was held at the annual European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology at Bressanone to take stock of the developments in cognitive neuropsychology represented by the first twenty volumes of the journal, and this book is the result...read more