Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology - Science, Testing, and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology, focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance, and how that is related to brain function. It explores in detail the relationship between brain activity and culture, and the influence of various cultural, educational, and linguistic factors on neuropsychological test performances across various cognitive domains.
Written by leadings researchers in cross-cultural neuropsychology, the book first introduces the basic concepts in the field. It goes on to focus on the influence of cultural variables on specific domains of cognition, including perception, attention, memory, language, and executive functions. It also explores the implications of cross-cultural neuropsychology in practice, including a focus on test adaptation, the use of interpreters, the influence of acculturation, and the practice of neuropsychological rehabilitation in different cultural settings.
This book is essential reading for neuropsychologists and related practitioners working with culturally diverse clients, who need a good grasp of the cultural impacts on neuropsychological test performance when assessing clients from different cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists in countries around the world who need a means of understanding the ways in which their culture impacts the performances of their clients on tests, which have been mostly developed in the U.S. or other Western cultures.

List of contents

Introduction
           Alberto Luis Fernández and Jonathan Evans

PART 1: BASIC CONCEPTS IN CROSS-CULTURAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

1. Challenges for neuropsychology in the global context
Aparna Dutt, Jonathan Evans, Alberto Luis Fernández


2. Operationalizing the concept of culture
Alberto Luis Fernández


3. Developing cross-cultural neuropsychology through the lens of cross-cultural cognitive neuroscience

Hsu-Wen Huang, Chih-Mao Huang


4. Education, the most powerful cultural variable?

Alberto Luis Fernández


PART 2: THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING



5. Considering culture in the neuropsychological assessment of attention and perception
   Matthew J. Russell, Hajin Lee, Karen K. Leung, and Takahiko Masuda


6. Culture and Perception

Sumita Chatterjee


7. The influence of culture on memory

Bernice A. Marcopulos, & Kara Eversole


8. Layers of Complexity: The Interplay of Culture and Bi/Multilingualism on Neurocognitive Outcomes Across the Lifespan

Adriana M. Strutt & Beatriz MacDonald


9. The influence of culture on the assessment of executive functioning

Jonathan Evans

PART 3: PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON NEUROPSYCHOLOGY



10. Cross-cultural testing: adaptation, development or cross-cultural tests?

Alberto Luis Fernández & Jonathan Evans


11. Interpreter-Assisted Neuropsychological Assessment: Clinical Considerations

Daryl Fujii, Octavio Santos & Lori Della Malva


12. The influence of acculturation on neuropsychological test performance

Yi Wen Tan & Gerald H. Burgess


13. Neuropsychological rehabilitation: Perspectives based on cultural experience

Jill Winegardner


14. The future of neuropsychology in a global context
    Jonathan  Evans, Aparna Dutt and Alberto Luis Fernández

Summary

This book thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology, focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance, and how that is related to brain functioning.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto Luis Evans Fernandez
• Assisted by: Jonathan Evans (Editor), Alberto Luis Fernández (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367508388
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50838-8
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Current Issues in Neuropsychology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology