Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science
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Cognitive Neuropsychology Twenty Years On: A special issue of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology
Edited by: Max Coltheart, Alfonso Caramazza
Publisher:Psychology Press
ISBN : 978-1-84169-972-1
Pub Date: 28/02/2006
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. In the book, prominent cognitive neuropsychologists provide state-of-the-art overviews of what cognitive neuropsychology has told us about the normal mechanisms of conceptual representation, spoken word production, the comprehension and construction of sentences, reading, spelling, memory, visual attention visual object recognition, and everyday action and planning. Key topics that are covered include computational cognitive neuropsychology, the relationship of cognitive neuropsychology to cognitive neuroscience, modularity, and the current status of such traditional features of cognitive neuropsychology as the rejection of group studies in favour of single case studies and the rejection of the study of syndromes in favour of the study of symptoms.
Routes To Reading Success and Failure
Toward an Integrated Cognitive Psychology of Atypical Reading
Edited by: Nancy E. Jackson, Max Coltheart
Publisher:Psychology Press
ISBN : 1841690112
Pub Date: 08 NOV 2001
I was very impressed by the intellectual precision of the authors and their scholarship. They have taken three areas of inquiry - the acquisition of literacy, developmental dyslexia, and acquired dyslexia - and have linked them together inside the framework of an information processing model. They have applied the framework in a way which illuminates all the areas discussed, and have set new standards for theorizing in these domains.'
Professor John Morton, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
'This book provides a unique and much-needed synthesis of the reading acquisition literature and the cognitive clinical neuropsychological literature. It should influence cognitive neuropsychology and reading research over the next decade, and will be widely read and cited.'
Professor Virginia Berninger, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Washington.
This new book provides fresh and original perspectives on the nature of individual differences in word and nonword reading. It does so 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. Jackson, a developmental psychologist, reconsiders her own and other recent studies of the cognitive psychology of precocious reading and hyperlexia. Coltheart, a cognitive neuropsychologist, draws on his own and others' studies of adults with acquired dyslexias. These literatures and studies of both developmental dyslexia and "garden variety" poor reading in children are examined to show how careful attention to methodological and conceptual issues can highlight similarities and differences across these diverse groups of readers.
Central to the authors' analysis is their argument for a distinction between proximal and distal causes of atypical reading. Proximal causes are cognitive explanations are the level of an individual's current reading system. Distal causes, which are likely to be less consistent across groups, include biological mechanisms and reading experiences. The authors analyses of proximal causes of atypical reading are presented in the context of Coltheart's dual-route cascaded (DRC) model of word and nonword reading. Routes to Reading Success and Failure will be of interest to a broad range of readers concerned with reading and its difficulties in cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, child development, and education.
Contents:
- Introduction.
- A Framework for Understanding Atypical Reading: Proximal and Distal Causes of Individual Differences in Reading.
- Dual-route Model of Reading.
- Acquired Dyslexia.
- Learning to Read and its Difficulties.
- Precocious Reading and Hyperlexia.
- Commonalities and Conclusions.
Cognitive Neuropsychological Approaches to Spoken Word Production
Special Issue of Aphasiology
Edited by: Lyndsey Nickels
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN : 1841699268
Pub Date: 02 MAY 2002
The papers in this volume all examine the nature of spoken word production in aphasia, and how this can inform current theories of language processing. It comprises 7 papers by some of the foremost researchers in the field. The first paper in the volume is an introduction by the editor (Dr Lyndsey Nickels), which reviews the 'state of the art' of the cognitive neuropsychology of spoken word production both in terms of theory and methodology. The individual papers address a range of topical issues including the levels of processing in speech production (Lambon-Ralph, Moriarty, Sage et al.; Wilshire); the nature of the interaction between levels of processing (Goldrick & Rapp);and effects of different factors on naming (word class and context: Berndt, Burton, Haendiges & Mitchum; phonemic and orthographic cues: Best, Herbert, Hickin, Osborne & Howard); lexical stress: Howard & Smith). Taken together this volume provides the reader with an insight into the cutting edge of research in spoken word production.
[Back to top]Rehabilitation of Spoken Word Production in Aphasia
Special Issue of Aphasiology
Edited by: Lyndsey Nickels
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN : 1841699284
Pub Date: 05 DEC 2002
This volume focuses on the remediation of impairments of word production in aphasia. It is restricted to studies focusing on single word production and comprises papers by some of the researchers most active in this field worldwide. The scope of the papers is broad and includes many relatively under-researched areas and techniques. All the papers have in common a methodological rigour and the use of a single case or case-series approach. A range of treatment tasks are evaluated: 'phonological' tasks such as phonological cueing and word repetition, and judgements regarding the phonological form; 'orthographic' tasks such as orthographic cueing, word reading and writing to dictation; 'semantic' tasks such as semantic cueing; the use of gesture; computer presentation of tasks and even just repeated attempts at naming. In addition, the individuals treated using these techniques varied in the nature of their impairments and/or level of impairment that was targeted. The majority aimed to improve word retrieval generally, but one treatment was aimed specifically at verb retrieval, and another at improving accuracy of word production for an individual with a phonological encoding impairment. Each paper relates the outcome of treatment to theoretical accounts of impairment, and one explicitly uses the results of therapy to inform these theories. Taken together these papers provide a snapshot of the 'state of the art' in the rehabilitation of word production in aphasia.
Contents:
- L. Nickels, Therapy for Naming Disorders: Revisiting, Revising and Reviewing.
- A. Raymer, T. Ellsworth, Response to Contrasting Verb Retrieval Treatments: A Case Study.
- L. Nickels, Improving Word Finding: Practice Makes (Closer to) Perfect?
- M. Rose, J. Douglas, T. Matyas, The Comparative Effectiveness of Gesture and Verbal Treatments for a Specific Phonologic Naming Impairment.
- R.B. Fink, A. Brecher, M.F. Schwartz, R.R. Robey, A Computer Implemented Protocol for Treatment of Naming Disorders: Evaluation of Clinician-guided and Partially Self-guided Instruction.
- S. Franklin, F. Buerk, D. Howard, Generalised Improvement in Speech Production for a Subject with Reproduction Conduction Aphasia.
- J. Hickin, Phonological Therapy for Word-finding Difficulties: A Re-evaluation.
- B. Biedermann, G. Blanken, L. Nickels, The Representation of Homophones: Evidence from Remediation.
Individual Differences in Theory of Mind
Implications for Typical and Atypical Development
Betty Repacholi, Virginia Slaughter
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN : 1841690937
Pub Date: 09 OCT 2003
Type: Hardback Book
Price: 39.95
Extent: 384 pages (Dimensions 153x229 mm)
Over the last fifteen years, developmentalists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, educators and clinicians have considered the acquisition of a theory of mind - the capacity to predict and explain behavior on the basis of internal, subjective mental states - to be one of the crucial cognitive achievements of early childhood. This volume represents the first collection of work to address, empirically and conceptually, the topic of individual differences in theory of mind. It is also unique because it takes the reader beyond the preschool years, to explore theory of mind development in late childhood and adulthood. This volume brings together a variety of papers that consider the inter-relations between theory of mind and other cognitive and behavioral variables, including the impact of theory of mind on social functioning and social relationships, the role of theory of mind in psychopathologies such as schizophrenia, psychopathy and autism, and the relation between theory of mind and language in typical and atypical populations.
Contents:
- Introduction. V. Slaughter, B. Repacholi, Individual Differences in Theory of Mind: What Are We Investigating?
- J.W. Astington, Sometimes Necessary, Never Sufficient: False-belief Understanding and Social Competence.
- D. McIlwain, Bypassing Empathy: A Machiavellian Theory of Mind and Sneaky Power.
- B. Repacholi, V. Slaughter, M. Pritchard, V. Gibbs, Theory of Mind, Machiavellianism, and Social Functioning in Childhood.
- J. Sutton, Tom Goes to School: Social Cognition and Social Values in Bullying.
- T. Keenan, Individual Differences in Theory of Mind: The Preschool Years and Beyond.
- R.J.R. Blair, Did Cain Fail to Represent the Thoughts of Abel before He Killed Him? The Relationship between Theory of Mind and Aggression.
- C.C. Peterson, The Social Face of Theory of Mind: The Development of Concepts of Emotion, Desire, Visual Perspective and False Belief in Deaf and Hearing Children.
- H. Tager-Flusberg, Exploring the Relationships between Theory of Mind and Social-Communicative Functioning in Children with Autism.
- C. Dissanayake, K. Macintosh, Mind Reading and Social Functioning in Children with Autistic Disorder and Asperger's Disorder.
- R. Langdon, Poor Mindreading and Delusions: Psychotic Solipsism versus Autistic Asociality. P. Gerrans, V. McGeer, Theory of Mind in Autism and Schizophrenia. Synthesis.
- M. Davies, T. Stone, Psychological Understanding and Social Skills.
Masked Priming
The State of the Art
Sachiko Kinoshita, Stephen J. Lupker
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN : 1841690953
Pub Date: 10 JUL 2003
Type: Hardback Book
Price: £46.95
Extent: 388 pages (Dimensions 153x229 mm)
Masked priming has a short and somewhat controversial history. When used as a tool to study whether semantic processing can occur in the absence of conscious awareness, considerable debate followed, mainly about whether masked priming truly tapped unconscious processes. For research into other components of visual word processing, however - in particular, orthographic, phonological, and morphological - a general consensus about the evidence provided by masked priming results has emerged. This book contains thirteen original chapters in which these three components of visual word processing are examined using the masked priming procedure. The chapters showcase the advantages of masked priming as an alternative to more standard methods of studying language processing that require comparisons of matched items. Based on a recent conference, this book offers up-to-date research findings, and would be valuable to researchers and students of word recognition, psycholinguistics, or reading.
Contents:
- Preface.
- Section 1: Mechanisms.
- The Mechanics of Masked Priming K. I. Forster, K. Mohan, J. Hector.
- An Abstractionist Account of Masked and Long-Term Priming J. Bowers.
- A Retrospective View of Masked Priming: Toward a Unified Account of Masked and Long-Term Repetition Priming M.E.J. Masson, G.E. Bodner.
- Section 2: Orthographics Effects.
- Transposed-Letter Confusability Effects in Masked Form Priming Manuel Perea, Stephen J. Lupker.
- Factors Underlying Masked Priming Effects in Competitive Network Models of Visual Word Recognition C.J. Davis.
- Section 3: Phonological Effects.
- The Robustness of Phonological Effects in Fast Priming R. Frost. Dissociating Automatic Orthographic and Phonological Codes in Lexical Access and Lexical Acquisition M.B. Johnston, A.E. Castles.
- The Nature of Masked Onset Priming Effect in Naming: A Review S. Kinoshita.
- Section 4: Morphological Effects.
- Racehorses, Reindeers and Sparrows: Using Masked Priming to Investigate Morphological Influences on Compound Word Identification N. Shoolman, S. Andrews.
- Reading Morphologically-Complex Words: Some Thoughts from Masked Priming K. Rastle, M.H. Davis.
- Section 5: Masked Priming in Special Populations.
- Masked Priming Across Languages: An Insight into Bilingual Lexical Processing C. Davis, J. Kim, R.Sanchez-Casas.
- Bilingual Visual Word Recognition: Evidence from Masked Phonological Priming M. Brysbaert.
- Word Recognition Development in Children: Insights from Masked-Priming A. Castles, C. Davis, K.I. Forster.
From Mating to Mentality
Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology
Kim Sterelny, Julie Fitness
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN : 1841690961
Pub Date: 13 NOV 2003
Type: Hardback Book
Price: £44.95
Extent: 296 pages (Dimensions 153x229 mm)
Proceedings of the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Workshop on Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology, a relatively new approach to understanding the origins and workings of the human mind, is currently attracting passionate interest and debate within both academia and the wider lay community. In July 2001 the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science sponsored an interdisciplinary workshop on evolutionary psychology in conjunction with the Philosophy Program at the Australian National University. The aim of the workshop was to bring together a multidisciplinary group of scholars with interests in different aspects of evolutionary psychology for critical discussion and debate. An outstanding cast of theorists and researchers from a diversity of psychological, philosophical, anthropological and biological backgrounds participated in the conference, and this volume contains some of the most intriguing and important papers to emerge from it. Covering a range of topics, from the evolution of language, theory of mind, and the mentality of apes, through to psychological disorders, human mating strategies and relationship processes, this volume makes a timely and significant contribution to what is fast becoming one of the most prominent and fruitful approaches to understanding the nature and psychology of the human mind.
Contents:
- Preface. K. Sterelny, J. Fitness, Introduction: The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology. D.T. Kenrick, D. Vaughn Becker, J. Butner, N.P. Li, J.K. Maner, Evolutionary Cognitive Science: Adding What and Why to How the Mind Works. J. A. Simpson, M. Oriña, Strategic Pluralism and Context-specific Mate Preferences in Humans. G.J.O. Fletcher, M. Stenswick, The Intimate Relationship Mind. R. Brockway, Evolving to be Mentalists: The 'Mind-reading Mums' Hypothesis. J.S. Chisholm, Uncertainty, Contingency and Attachment: A Life History Theory of Theory of Mind. M.C. Corballis, Recursion as the Key to the Human Mind. T. Suddendorf, A. Whiten, Reinterpreting the Mentality of Apes. D. Sperber, V. Girotto, Does the Selection Task Detect Cheater-detection? R. Siegert, Clinical Psychology and Evolutionary Psychology: Strange Bedfellows? R.D. Gray, M. Heaney, S. Fairhall, Evolutionary Psychology and the Challenge of Adaptive Explanation.
Author Biography:
Kim Sterelny grew up in and near Sydney, doing both his degrees at Sydney University. He taught philosophy at various places and times on Australia's East Coast before moving to New Zealand in 1988. Since 1999 he has been half time in New Zealand and the Australian National University in Canberra. His interests have always been on the border between philosophy and the natural sciences; most recently, evolutionary biology and psychology.
Julie Fitness completed her PhD in psychology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is currently a senior lecturer in Social Psychology at Macquarie University, Australia. Her major research interests concern the features and and functions of emotions such as love, hate, anger and jealousy within intimate relationships and the workplace. She has published widely on emotion and relationship-related topics and is an Associate Editor of the journal Personal Relationships.
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