Selective Deficits in Developmental Cognitive Neuropsychology

<p>Traditionally, cognitive neuropsychology has focused on selective impairments in individuals who suffered brain damage as adults. However, in recent years, there have been a number of cognitive neuropsychological studies of selective impairments due to developmental deficits. Papers in <em>Selective Deficits in Developmental Cognitive Neuropsychology </em>include a diverse range of disorders involving those affecting spatial orientation, face recognition, reading, and memory. These papers illustrate the value of this approach and its promise as a means to gain insight into cognition and its neural and developmental basis.</p> <p><em>B.C. Duchaine,</em> Introduction. <em>M. McCloskey, J. Valtonen, J. Sherman, </em>Representing Orientation: A Coordinate-System Hypothesis, and Evidence from Developmental Deficits. <em>B.C. Duchaine, G. Yovel, E.J. Butterworth, K. Nakayama,</em> Prosopagnosia as an Impairment to Face-Specific Mechanism: Elimination of the Alternative Hypotheses in a Developmental Case. <em>S. White, U. Frith, E. Milne, S. Rosen, J. Swettenham, F. Ramus,</em> A Double Dissociation between Sensorimotor Impairments and Reading Disability: A Comparison of Autistic and Dyslexic Children. <em>C.M. Temple, P. Richardson,</em> Developmental Amnesia: Fractionation of Developing Memory Systems.</p>