Neuropsychology of Space

Spatial Functions of the Human Brain

Albert Postma, Ineke J. M. van der Ham

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780128016381
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128017944
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

The Neuropsychology of Space: Spatial Functions of the Human Brain summarizes recent research findings related to understanding the brain mechanisms involved in spatial reasoning, factors that adversely impact spatial reasoning, and the clinical implications of rehabilitating people who have experienced trauma affecting spatial reasoning. This book will appeal to cognitive psychologists, neuropsychologists, and clinical psychologists. Spatial information processing is central to many aspects of cognitive psychology including perception, attention, motor action, memory, reasoning, and communication. Any behavioural task involves mentally computing spaces, mechanics, and timing and many mental tasks may require thinking about these aspects as well (e.g. imaging the route to a destination). - Discusses how spatial processing is central to perception, attention, memory, reasoning, and communication - Identifies the brain architecture and processes involved in spatial processing - Describes theories of spatial processing and how empirical evidence support or refute theories - Includes case studies of neuropsychological disorders to better illustrate theoretical concepts - Provides an applied perspective of how spatial perception acts in the real world - Contains rehabilitation possibilities for spatial function loss

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. A Sense of Space
• Chapter 2. On Inter- and Intrahemispheric Differences in Visuospatial Perception
• Chapter 3. On Feeling and Reaching: Touch, Action, and Body Space
• Chapter 4. Multisensory Perception and the Coding of Space
• Chapter 5. Spatial Attention and Eye Movements
• Chapter 6. Tell Me Where to Go: On the Language of Space
• Chapter 7. Keeping Track of Where Things Are in Space: The Neuropsychology of Object Location Memory
• Chapter 8. Navigation Ability
• Chapter 9. How Children Learn to Discover Their Environment: An Embodied Dynamic Systems Perspective on the Development of Spatial Cognition
• Chapter 10. Space in Neuropsychological Assessment
• Index