1) Disorders of perception: visual, auditory, language, motor :
Failures of object recognition
Agnosia and its subtypes - Prosopagnosia
Auditory scene analysis, perception of complex auditory events such as speech and music, and their disorders
Neuropsychology of Language Disorders: Aphasia, Alexia, Dyslexia
2) Executive Functions and Frontal Lobes
The Lateral Prefrontal Cortex and Working Memory,Distinguishing between stored knowledge and activated information, Working memory versus associative memory,The frontal lobes and the temporal organization of memory,Source memory, The selection of task-relevant information, Goal-oriented behavior, The anterior cingulate as a monitoring system, Attention, selective attention
3) Language and the Brain
Theories of Language
The storage of words and concepts
The mental lexicon
Perceptual analyses of the linguistic input
The recognition of words and Integration of words in sentences
Speech production
4) Action, Motor control & coordination
Reflex arc, muscle, synergy,
speed-accuracy trade off,
eye-hand movements.
5) Learning and Memory
Theories of Memory
Sensory and short-term memory mechanisms
Models of short-term memory
Models of long-term memory
Memory and Brain
Human memory, brain damage, and amnesia
References :-
The New Cognitive Neuroscience- by Gazziniga M.S. R.B. Ivry & G.R. Mangun.
Additional reading: Oliver Sacks, Damasio
Failures of object recognition
Agnosia and its subtypes - Prosopagnosia
Auditory scene analysis, perception of complex auditory events such as speech and music, and their disorders
Neuropsychology of Language Disorders: Aphasia, Alexia, Dyslexia
2) Executive Functions and Frontal Lobes
The Lateral Prefrontal Cortex and Working Memory,Distinguishing between stored knowledge and activated information, Working memory versus associative memory,The frontal lobes and the temporal organization of memory,Source memory, The selection of task-relevant information, Goal-oriented behavior, The anterior cingulate as a monitoring system, Attention, selective attention
3) Language and the Brain
Theories of Language
The storage of words and concepts
The mental lexicon
Perceptual analyses of the linguistic input
The recognition of words and Integration of words in sentences
Speech production
4) Action, Motor control & coordination
Reflex arc, muscle, synergy,
speed-accuracy trade off,
eye-hand movements.
5) Learning and Memory
Theories of Memory
Sensory and short-term memory mechanisms
Models of short-term memory
Models of long-term memory
Memory and Brain
Human memory, brain damage, and amnesia
References :-
The New Cognitive Neuroscience- by Gazziniga M.S. R.B. Ivry & G.R. Mangun.
Additional reading: Oliver Sacks, Damasio