Summary

A psychology text focusing on topics in neuropsychology where research and controversy have been active since the 1980s. Parkin (experimental psychology, U. of Sussex) explores cognitive neuropsychology as a science, blindsight, visual agnosia, impairment of facial recognition, neglect, the split brain, spoken language impairments, reading and writing disorders, amnesia, and the frontal lobe deficits. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.