Neuropsychological Explorations Of Memory And Cognition: Essay In Honor Of Nelson Butters (critical Issues In Neuropsychology)

Researchers who were influenced by Dr. Nelson Butters contribute articles to this volume to honor him and his thirty-year career. Their contributions reflect how Dr. Butters impacted their current work and offer an historical account of research theory and paradigmatic shifts within the field of cognitive neuropsychology. Researchers, clinicians, and students working in the neurosciences will appreciate this volume. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Recovery of Function After Serial Lesions of Prefrontal Cortex in the Rhesus Monkey....Pages 1-8 Comparative Neuropsychology....Pages 9-30 Processing Deficits of Amnesic Patients....Pages 31-43 Verbal Priming and Semantic Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 45-59 Semantic Memory Deficits Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 61-76 Exploring Disorders of Semantic Memory....Pages 77-94 Amnesia, Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 95-101 Identification of Neuropsychologically Defined Subgroups of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients....Pages 103-115 Contributions of Cognitive Psychology to the Study of Impaired Memory and Attention....Pages 117-134 Cognitive Investigations in Huntington’s Disease....Pages 135-146 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Memory Disorders....Pages 147-157 The Mammillary Bodies Revisited....Pages 159-189 Functional and Anatomical Specificity of Frontal Lobe Functions....Pages 191-200 Recovery of Function after Focal Cerebral Insult....Pages 201-214 Remote Memory in Retrospect....Pages 215-221 The Clinical Assessment of Memory Disorders....Pages 223-239 Differential Neuropsychology....Pages 241-255 Procedural Memory and Rehabilitation....Pages 257-263 Psychodynamic Phenomena, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience....Pages 265-283 Applying the Neuropsychology of Memory Disorders to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder....Pages 285-293 Organismic-Developmental Theory and Neuropsychological Research....Pages 295-300 Growing up in Neuropsychology....Pages 301-304 Back Matter....Pages 305-334