| English |
| cognitive neuropsychology |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun phrase
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| Definition |
Neuropsychological approach that entails a reciprocal relationship between the theories of normal cognitive processes and investigations of acquired disorders of those processes.
Neuropsychological approach that entails a reciprocal relationship between theories of normal cognitive processes and investigations of acquired disorders of those processes. On the one hand, data from neurological patients are used to illuminate theories of normal processing. On the other hand, patterns of specific impaired and preserved abilities of particular neurological patients are interpreted within models of normal processing: the performance observed is presumed to reflect selective breakdown of (or functional dissociation between) separable, normal processing systems.
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| Definition source |
Code 1989
Code 1989
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| Context |
Cognitive neuropsychology, as this approach has developed into, is having a major impact upon neuropsychology in general and aphasiology in particular and aphasiology may be currently working its way through a paradigm shift. Cognitive neuropsychology has developed as a result of experimental psychologists wishing to test and develop their information processing models of cognition on brain-damaged individuals.
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| Context source |
Code 1989
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| Subject field |
Aphasia
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Aphasiology
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| Sub-field (level 2) |
Cognitive neuropsychology
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| Related concept |
Lexical processing system, Lexical deficit, Clinical psychology, Cognitive disorder
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| it |
Neuropsicologia cognitiva
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| Reliability code |
3
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