Neuropsychological Approaches to the Study of Individual Differences

摘要: The main objective of human neuropsychology is to map mental functions onto the brain. desired result a set general facts and organizing principles that relate specific behaviors neural activity at brain locations. Insofar as individual variation may qualify those obfuscate underlying principles, such often viewed unwanted noise lowers correlation between behavior. Cerebral speech regions would be easier define if topographic landmarks did not vary so much from (Rubens, 1977); dichotic listening more useful measure language lateralization there were many normal people who fail show expected performance asymmetries (Satz, poor on neuropsychological test interpret affected by patient’s educational level (Lezak, 1983). In respects, work neuropsychologists less problematic its behavioral repertoire invariant behavior laboratory rat.