Metacognition and Cognitive Neuropsychology: Monitoring and Control Processes

ISBN-13: 9780805826623 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 08/01/1998 Pages: 222 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) Lexile: 1450L (what's this?) Control processes are those mental functions that allow us to initiate, monitor, and prioritize mental activities. They are crucial to normal mental functioning. A better understanding of the nature of control processes and their deficits is important for clinical work and for an adequate theory of consciousness. Previously, control processes have been examined within the frameworks of two parallel but independent paradigms: those of cognitive psychology and of neuropsychology. Cognitive psychologists have stressed the theoretical and empirical nature of normal unimpaired control processes; neuropsychologists have focused on the relationships between damage to specific functional areas of the brain and deficits in specific control processes. Both have contributed extensively to our understanding of control processes. H