Advances in Child Neuropsychology
In the foreword to Volume 1 of this series, Byron Rourke noted that the field of child neuropsychology is still young. He wrote: "It has no obvious birthdate. Hence, we cannot determine its age with the type of chrono metric precision for which our scien
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Child Neuropsychology
Advances in
Child Neuropsychology
Edited by
Michael G. Tramontana Stephen R. Hooper Editorial Advisory Board
Russell Barkley Raymond Dean George Hynd Francis Pirozzolo Byron Rourke Michael Rutter Paul Satz Otfried Spreen Barbara Wilson
Michael G. Tramontana Stephen R. Hooper Editors
Advances in Child Neuropsychology Volume 2 With 22 Illustrations
Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg London Paris Tokyo Hong Kong Barcelona Budapest
Michael G. Tramontana, Ph.D. Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, TN 37212, USA Stephen R. Hooper, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
ISSN: 0940-8606 Printed on acid-free paper.
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To Maryanne, Michael, and Christopher as we eagerly await our newest arrival, Joseph Gerard M.G.T. To Mary, Lindsay, and Madeline
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Foreword
In the foreword to Volume 1 of this series, Byron Rourke noted that the field of child neuropsychology is still young. He wrote: "It has no obvious birthdate. Hence, we cannot determine its age with the type of chronometric precision for which our scientific hearts may yearn .... Be that as it may, activity in the field has been growing steadily, if not by leaps and bounds. Although there is nowhere near the intensity of investigation of children from a neuropsychological standpoint as there is of adults, there have been notable systematic investigations of considerable interest. Some of the more important of these are presented in the current volume." I am happy to say that the contents of Volume 2 likewise provide new insights across many important domains of developmental neuropsychology. As the editors note, this book consists of six chapters divided into four general areas, including developmental neur
