About the Book
Brain damage often has tragic consequences, and as a result we are becoming increasingly aware of the relationship between brain and cognition. Ever increasing numbers of neuropsychologists are studying the effects of the brain on behaviour and these four volumes present papers on this relationship from the onset of this field of study in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Brain and Behaviour reveals the history of the study of brain and cognition that goes back much further than the rapid advances of the last twenty years. This study has had a profound impact on the way psychologists and other cognitive scientists construct their models of mental functions and how the brain is related to these functions. In historical terms, the mid-nineteenth century is given as the time of the start of recent interest in the relationship between brain and behaviour as it is the time when the French physician Paul Broca performed an autopsy which revealed that the brain was critically involved in speech production. Since then further profound observations and theoretical insights have continued to add to the growing debate.
The papers contained here are selected by the influence they have had on following developments and therefore are the first expression of those ideas resulting in a good number of the papers originating from the early twentieth and even nineteenth century. The papers are primarily concerned with behaviour rather than neuroanatomy and are devoted to those areas which give rise to debate and those which were influential in making the link between brain and behaviour. Brain and Behaviour will allow researchers and readers to make up their own minds about the quality of the evidence in a compilation that spans many areas of cognition.
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Modular Function 1. Signoret, J-L, Castaigne, P., Lhermitte, F., Abelanet, R. and Lavorel, P. [1984] Rediscovery of Leborgne's brain: Anatomical description with CT scan Brain and Language, 22 2. Damasio, H., Grabowski, T., Frank, R., Galaburda, A.M. and Damasio, A.R. [1994] The return of Phineas Gage: Clues about the brain from the skull of a famous patient Science, 264 3. Lichtheim, L. [1885] On Aphasia Brain, 7 4. Curtis, J.N. and Foster, W.S. [1917] Size vs. intensity as a determinant of attention American Journal of Psychology, 28 5. Bramwell, B. [1899] On "crossed" aphasia Lancet, 2 6. Smith, A. and Burkland, C.W. [1966] Dominant hemispherectomy: preliminary report on neuropsychological sequelae Science, 153 7. Akelaitis, A.J. [1944] A study of gnosis, praxis and language following section of the corpus callosum and anterior commissure Journal of Neurosurgery, 1 8. Milner, B. [1958] Psychological defects produced by temporal lobe lesions Research Publications of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disorders, 36 9. Gazzaniga, M.S., Bogen, J.E. and Sperry, R.W. [1965] Oberservations on visual perception after disconnexion of the cerebral hemispheres in man Brain, 88 10. Geschwind, N. [1965] Disconnexion syndromes in animals and man Brain, 88 Section 2: Perception 11. Holmes, G. [1918] Disturbances of vision created by cerebral lesions British Journal of Opthalmology, 2 12. Wechsler, I.S. [1933] Partial cortical blindness with preservation of colour vision Archives of Ophthalmology (Chicago, New series), 9 13. Riddoch, G. [1917] Dissociation of visual perceptions due to occipital injuries, with special reference to appreciation of movement Brain, 40 14. Zihl, J., von Cramon, D. and Mai, N. [1983] Selective disturbance of movement vision after bilateral brain damage, Brain, 106 15. Poppel, E., Held, R. and Frost, D. [1973] Residual visual functions after brain wounds involving the central visual pathways in man Nature, 243 16. Shallice, T. and Jackson, M. [1988] Lissauer on agnosia Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5 17. Warrington, M. and James, M. [1988] Visual apperceptive agnosia: A clinico-anatomical study of three cases Cortex, 24 18. Hecaen, H. and de Ajuriaguerra, J. [1954] Balint syndrome (psychic paralysis of visual fixation) and its minor forms Brain, 77 19. Coslett, H.B. and Saffran, E. [1991] Simultagnosia Brain, 114 20. Riddoch, M.J. and Humphreys G.W. [1987] A case of integrative visual agnosia Brain, 110 21. Ellis, H.D. and Florence, M. [1990] Bodamer's paper on prosopagnosia Cognitive Neuropsychology, 7 22. Bauer, R.M. [1984] Autonomic recognition of names and faces in prosopagnosia: a neuropsychological application of the guilty knowledge test Neuropsychologia, 22 23. De Haan, E.H.F., Young, A.W. and Newcombe, F. [1
