10 Facts About Cognitive neuropsychology

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Cognitive neuropsychology is a branch of cognitive psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes.

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Cognitive neuropsychology psychology is the science that looks at how mental processes are responsible for our cognitive abilities to store and produce new memories, produce language, recognize people and objects, as well as our ability to reason and problem solve.

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Cognitive neuropsychology can be distinguished from cognitive neuroscience, which is interested in brain damaged patients, but is particularly focused on uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive processes.

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Cognitive neuropsychology has its roots in the diagram making approach to language disorder that started in the second half of the 19th century.

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Cognitive neuropsychology noticed that in the more than 25 patients he examined with aphasia, they all had lesions to the left frontal lobe but there was no damage to the right hemisphere of the brain.

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Many other studies like this have been done in the field of Cognitive neuropsychology examining lesions and the effect they have on certain areas of the brain and their functions.

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Much of the early work of cognitive neuropsychology was carried out with limited reference to the detailed localisation of brain pathology.

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Key approach within cognitive neuropsychology has been to use single case studies and dissociation as a means of testing theories of cognitive function.

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Contemporary cognitive neuropsychology uses many of the same techniques and technologies from the wider science of neuropsychology and fields such as cognitive neuroscience.

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Useful technology in cognitive neuropsychology includes positron-emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging .

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