Treatment as a tool for investigating cognition
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Treatment as a tool for investigating cognition
(Macquarie monographs in cognitive science, . A special issue of the journal Cognitive neuropsychology)
Routledge, 2016
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Note
"This book was originally published as a special issue of Cognitive neuropsychology."--P. [i]
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cognitive neuropsychological research studies of people with cognitive deficits have typically been directed either at investigating methods of intervention, or at furthering our understanding of normal and impaired cognition.
This book reports on research that combines these goals, using studies that use intervention as a 'tool' for investigating hypotheses about the functioning of the human cognitive system. The introductory chapter discusses some of the unique and more general difficulties that this approach faces, while the five reports describe intervention studies with children and adults with cognitive impairments - studies which investigate current theories of cognition. The studies demonstrate that the use of intervention to study cognition is a promising and valuable methodology.
Aiming to promote wider use of these combined methods, this book makes it clear that while the approach faces various methodological and interpretative challenges, it has the advantage of providing advances on issues of theory while, at the same time providing treatment to participants, and bringing together what have been largely separate research traditions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Challenges in the use of treatment to investigate cognition 1. Can verbal working memory training improve reading? 2. Intervening to alleviate word-finding difficulties in children: case series data and a computational modelling foundation 3. The nature of facilitation and interference in the multilingual language system: insights from treatment in a case of trilingual aphasia 4. Training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production does not generalize to comprehension: evidence for modality-specific processes 5. Rule-based learning of regular past tense in children with specific language impairment
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