Can Literacy Change Brain Anatomy? - A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

Zusammenfassung This special issue brings together data from neuro-psychology and neuro-imaging studies, and evoked potentials that analyse the impact of literacy on the functional organization of the adult brain. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Can Literacy Change Brain Anatomy? F. Ostrosky-Solís 2. Targeting Regions of Interest for the Study of the Illiterate Brain A. Castro-Caldas 3. Imaging Cognitive Reserve Y. Stern, N. Scarmeas, C. Habeck 4. Can Learning to Read and Write Change the Brain Organization? An Electrophysiological Study F. Ostrosky-Solís, M. A. García, M. Pérez 5. Culture or Education? Neuropsychological Test Performance of a Maya Indigenous Population F. Ostrosky-Solís, M. Ramírez, A. Lozano, H. Picasso, A. Vélez 6. Literacy and Cognitive Change among Ethnically Diverse Elders J. J. Manly, D. Byrd, P. Touradji, D. Sanchez, Y. Stern 7. There is Not any Specific Brain Area for Writing: From Cave-Paintings to Computers A. Ardila

Product details

• Authors: Feggy Ostrosky-Solis
• Assisted by: Laura Hernandez-Guzman (Editor), Feggy Ostrosky-Solis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9781841699684
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-968-4
• No. of pages: 70
• Series: Special Issues of the International Journal of Psychology; Special Issues of the International Journal of Psychology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology