{"product_id":"the-myth-of-executive-functioning-missing-elements-in-conceptualization-evaluation-and-assessment-9783319044767","title":"The Myth of Executive Functioning: Missing Elements in Conceptualization, Evaluation, and Assessment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExecutive functioning: we measure it, assess it, document its development in youth, track its decline in age and use it as a basis for diagnoses, treatment planning and-of course-theories. Could it be possible that science has spent decades chasing a cognitive phantom?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoting the lack of consensus concerning definition, component skills, and location within the brain, \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Executive Functioning\u003c\/i\u003e calls basic assumptions, prominent theories, commonly used test methods, and even the phrase \u003ci\u003eexecutive\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003efunctioning\u003c\/i\u003e into question. The book's deceptively simple argument takes an evolutionary\/neuroscience look at the cornerstones of cognitive organization, including memory, planning, decision-making and adaptation to novel circumstances. From there, gaps are identified between systems of cognitive control and those behaviors that are evaluated in neuropsychological testing-gaps that contribute to the disconnect between how science views mind and body, brain and behavior. The author's problem-solving metaphor places new emphasis on stimulus processing and on the relationship between movement and thought as he offers thought-provoking perspectives on: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The limits of neuropsychological constructs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe components of adaptive thinking.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe automatic aspects of problem solving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe left-brain\/right-brain dichotomy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProblems with the domain approach to cognition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew paradigms for testing cognitive functioning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA controversial presentation with the potential to change clinical practice and training, \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Executive Functioning\u003c\/i\u003e will be read, debated and learned from by neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, cognitive neuroscientists and rehabilitation specialists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction.- Problem Solving: Practical Examples and Additional  Properties.- The Problem Solving Metaphor, Neuropsychology, and Exective Functioning.- Neuropsychological Constructs, Assumptions, and Executive Functioning: Revisiting Principles of  Brain Organization.- Functional Domains, Unitary Constructs, and the Intergrated Brain.- Large Scale Brain Systems.- The Application of Large Scale Brain Systems to Practical \"EF\" Behavior: Revisting the Introductory Examples.- The Novelty -Routinization Principle of  Brain Organization.- Clues to Understanding the Phylogeny of Behavioral  Control.- Ways of Generating Behavior.- Movement, Thinking, Anticipation, and  Banishing Exectuvie Functioning.- The Four Steps of the Development of the Cognitive Control System.- Abolishing the Executive and the Mind-Body Problem.- Why Cognitive Control is an Expansion of Cortical-Cerebellar and  Cortical-Basal Ganglia Motor Control  Systems.- The Cerebro-Cerebellar Underpinning of Cognitive Control.-  Structure and Function of the Cerebro-Cerebellar Circuitary System.- The Basal Ganglia Underpinning of Cognitive Control: The Fronto-Striatal System.- Cognitive Control, Reward, and the Basal Ganglia.- Basal Ganglia Dynamics, Cognition, and Social  Behavior.- Interim Summary.- How Well Do These Principles “FIT” Exceptional Cases?.- Why People Who Cannot Move Are Aable to Think.- The  Exceptionality of the Congenitally  Blind.- The Exceptionality of  Deafness.- NEeuropsychological  Testing  and  Neuropsychological  Evaluation: Is There A Difference  Between These  Aprroaches?.- Missing Elements in the Neuropsychological Assessment  of EF.- The Tradtional Neuropsychological  Assessment Paradigm.- The Motor Examination.- The Evaluation of  Reward Preferences.- Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772004598103,"sku":"9783319044767","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783319044767.jpg?v=1758729904","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-myth-of-executive-functioning-missing-elements-in-conceptualization-evaluation-and-assessment-9783319044767","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}