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Cognitive neuropsychological and neuroscience methods are used to elucidate the nature of mental representation and processing and its neural substrates. Specific methods include: the analysis of the performance of adults who have suffered neural injury (as a result or stroke, trauma, degenerative disease), the study of individuals who suffer from developmental deficits (including developmental dyslexia , dysgraphia or Williams Syndrome), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), eye tracking and cortical stimulation. These methods are used to investigate, among others, topics such as: the relationship between language and spatial processes, the neural substrates that support recovery of function in acquired language deficits, the relationship between and among language processes (morphology, syntax, phonology, orthography and semantics), the nature of the neural reorganization that occurs in the somatosensory system subsequent to damage, and the types of spatial reference frames that are involved in representing spatial location as well as the nature of spatial representations within and across different modalities and brain/cognitive systems. |
