neuropsychology
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the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes
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Cognitive neuroscience began to integrate the newly laid theoretical ground in cognitive science, that emerged between the 1950s and 1960s, with approaches in experimental psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience.
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 25, 614-624 Learning modalities There has been much interest in learning modalities and styles over the last two decades.
Hypo-connectivity seems to dominate, especially for interhemispheric and cortico-cortical functional connectivity. citation Neuropsychology Two major categories of cognitive theories have been proposed about the links between autistic brains and behavior.
Modern neuropsychology could be said to originate in the 1870s, when in France Paul Broca traced production of speech to the left frontal gyrus, thereby also demonstrating hemispheric lateralization of brain function.
Kolb & Whishaw: Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology (2003), pages 503-504.
Neuropsychology Changes in brain activity have been found in some studies of highly responsive hypnotic subjects.