Customers who bought this item also bought

• Multivariate Analysis for the Biobehavioral and Social Sciences: A Graphical Approach
• Thinking About Answers. The Application of Cognitive Processes to Survey Methodology. Research Methods for the Social Sciences
• Multivariate Analysis for the Biobehavioral and Social Sciences. A Graphical Approach
• Question Evaluation Methods. Contributing to the Science of Data Quality. Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
• Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century, Vol 6. Handbook of the History of Logic
• Behavioral Finance. Understanding the Social, Cognitive, and Economic Debates. Wiley Finance
• Philosophy of Linguistics. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
• Making Sense of Data III. A Practical Guide to Designing Interactive Data Visualizations
• Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational, and Multiregional Contexts. Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
• Rasch Related Models and Methods for Health Science. ISTE

Cognitive. Edition No. 1

VDM Publishing House, October 2008, Pages: 172

Developmental disorders are often studied as either
independent research groups or as clinical case
presentations; these approaches are rarely combined.
This book directly compares cognitive and social
functioning in three developmental disorders:
Williams syndrome (WS), Down syndrome (DS) and
autism (AS), from both a research and a clinical
perspective. This unique approach provides new
insights into cognitive functioning within WS, DS
and AS, including: attention; memory; learning and
processing styles; verbal abilities; spatial skills
and reasoning. New insights are also provided into
how WS, DS and AS view the world from a social
perspective, including: their ability to read
emotions; their motivational drive toward social
interaction; and their ‘Theory of Mind’, or their
ability to understand other people’s behaviours
based on underlying desires, emotions, and thoughts.
Findings also highlight within-syndrome variability
in cognitive and social functions in WS,
which was previously thought to have a homogenous
cognitive profile. The book is a valuable resource
for researchers, as well as health and education
professionals.

Melanie Porter.
Melanie A. Porter (B. Psych. Hons., M. Clin. Neuro., Ph.D.): Is
a practicing Developmental Clinical Neuropsychologist, and a
Lecturer in Clinical Neuropsychology at Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia. She is also a member of the Australian
College of Clinical Neuropsychologists.