Highlights•Multiple aspects of attention are affected in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).•The Locus
Coeruleus, a critical node in alerting and arousal, is one of the first brain regions to be …

This final chapter provides the reader with an overview of the neurological and
neurobiological literature on the neural substrate of consciousness. First, the chapter …

Fully updated, the second edition of Neuropsychology of Art offers a fascinating exploration
of the brain regions and neuronal systems which support artistic creativity, talent and …

Concepts can be related in many ways. They can belong to the same taxonomic category
(eg,“doctor” and “teacher,” both in the category of people) or be associated with the same …

Although subjective construal (ie, our personal understanding of situations and the people
and objects within them) has been an enduring topic in social psychology, its underlying …

In the context of debates surrounding the effects of new technologies on our mental faculties,
particularly the attention span, this volume addresses the notion of a deterioration of …

Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome dominated by
deterioration of higher visual function (particularly visuospatial and visuoperceptual …

Background: There are many disorders of higher visual processing that result from damage
to specific areas of the cerebral cortex that have a specific role in processing certain aspects …

Representations in the brain are encoded as patterns of activity of large populations of
neurons. The science of population encoded representations, also known as parallel …

In 1909 a Hungarian physician, Rezsö Bálint, published the first report of a striking visual
problem in a patient with bilateral parietal lesions (Bálint, 1909). Bálint had studied his …