Thursday, January 17, 2008

Neuropsychology

Neuropsychology is an interdisciplinary branch of psychology and neuroscience that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to specific psychological processes and overt behaviors. The term neuropsychology has been applied to both lesion studies of humans and animals and efforts to record electrical activity from individual cells (or groups of cells) in higher primates.

It is scientific in its approach and shares an information processing view of the mind with cognitive psychology and cognitive science.

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