| 单词 | neuropsychology |
| 释义 | neuropsychology Med.|njʊərəʊsaɪˈkɒlədʒɪ|
[f. neuro- + psychology.]
The field of study concerned with the relationship between behaviour and the mind on the one hand, and the nervous system, esp. the brain, on the other; neurological psychology.
1893Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 21) 751/1 Neuropsychology, neurology including psychology. 1955Sci. Amer. 72/2 Neuropsychology is Lashley's specialty, and..its studies of cerebral function and neurological structure have been conducted under his personal direction. 1963Neuropsychologia I. 1 Under the term ‘neuropsychology’, we have in mind a particular area of neurology of common interest to neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and neurophysiologists. This interest is focused mainly..on the cerebral cortex. Among topics of particular concern to us are disorders of language, perception and action. 1964R. L. Isaacson Basic Readings Neuropsychol. p. vii, Since the work of Lashley, neuropsychology has become a major branch of physiological psychology. 1973Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 7/1 A high degree of specialisation by each of man's ‘two brains’—the cerebral hemispheres—have [sic] been shown by recent work in neuro-psychology.
So ˌneuropsychoˈlogical a.; neuropsyˈchologist, an expert or specialist in neuropsychology.
The mod. use appears to be independent of quots. 1851, where the meaning is rather less specific.
1851T. Laycock tr. Unzer's Princ. Physiol. p. ii, The neuro-psychological essays he inserted in it are frequently referred to in the present work. Ibid. p. vi, Sylvius..followed Descartes, while Willis was influenced..by the doctrines of Paracelsus. There was, however, yet another neuro-psychologist. 1949D. O. Hebb (title) Organization of behavior: a neuropsychological theory. 1970Sci. Amer. Mar. 67/3 Of the various lesions in the second block of the brain those in the tertiary zones are particularly interesting to us as neuropsychologists. Ibid. 72/3 The neuropsychological approach provides a valuable means of dissecting mental processes as well as diagnosing illness. 1973B. Haigh tr. Luria's Working Brain 12 The author..attempts to fit the facts obtained by neuropsychological studies of individual brain systems into their appropriate place in the grand design of psychological science. 1974Nature 31 May 495/1 Thus was born the ‘frontal lobe syndrome’, the study of which in modern times owes much to the Russian neuro-psychologist Alexander Luria. |
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