Methods in Human Neuropsychology.

Neuropsychology can be broadly defined as the study of brain-behavior relationships. The methods on which this discipline is founded are equally as broad, a fact to which the present volume attests. Indeed, neuropsychology is at the crossroads of the neurosciences, which include neurology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and the behavioral sciences, which include psychology and linguistics (Hécaen and Albert, 1978). The purpose of this chapter is to expose the nature and origin of methods issued from human experimental psychology and, to a minor degree, from psychometrics to the systematic study of brain-behavior relationships. In doing so, this chapter will not focus on fundamental issues, like the still problematic question of the relation between function and structure, but rather on the methods used to examine these issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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