Full Description
Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology, focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance, and how that is related to brain function. It explores in detail the relationship between brain activity and culture, and the influence of various cultural, educational, and linguistic factors on neuropsychological test performances across various cognitive domains.
Written by leadings researchers in cross-cultural neuropsychology, the book first introduces the basic concepts in the field. It goes on to focus on the influence of cultural variables on specific domains of cognition, including perception, attention, memory, language, and executive functions. It also explores the implications of cross-cultural neuropsychology in practice, including a focus on test adaptation, the use of interpreters, the influence of acculturation, and the practice of neuropsychological rehabilitation in different cultural settings.
This book is essential reading for neuropsychologists and related practitioners working with culturally diverse clients, who need a good grasp of the cultural impacts on neuropsychological test performance when assessing clients from different cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists in countries around the world who need a means of understanding the ways in which their culture impacts the performances of their clients on tests, which have been mostly developed in the U.S. or other Western cultures.
Contents
Introduction
Alberto Luis Fernández and Jonathan Evans
PART 1: BASIC CONCEPTS IN CROSS-CULTURAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Challenges for neuropsychology in the global context
Aparna Dutt, Jonathan Evans, Alberto Luis Fernández
Operationalizing the concept of culture
Alberto Luis Fernández
Developing cross-cultural neuropsychology through the lens of cross-cultural cognitive neuroscience
Hsu-Wen Huang, Chih-Mao Huang
Education, the most powerful cultural variable?
Alberto Luis Fernández
PART 2: THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING
Considering culture in the neuropsychological assessment of attention and perception Matthew J. Russell, Hajin Lee, Karen K. Leung, and Takahiko Masuda
Culture and Perception
Sumita Chatterjee
The influence of culture on memory
Bernice A. Marcopulos, & Kara Eversole
Layers of Complexity: The Interplay of Culture and Bi/Multilingualism on Neurocognitive Outcomes Across the Lifespan
Adriana M. Strutt & Beatriz MacDonald
The influence of culture on the assessment of executive functioning
Jonathan Evans
PART 3: PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Cross-cultural testing: adaptation, development or cross-cultural tests?
Alberto Luis Fernández & Jonathan Evans
Interpreter-Assisted Neuropsychological Assessment: Clinical Considerations
Daryl Fujii, Octavio Santos & Lori Della Malva
The influence of acculturation on neuropsychological test performance
Yi Wen Tan & Gerald H. Burgess
Neuropsychological rehabilitation: Perspectives based on cultural experience
Jill Winegardner
The future of neuropsychology in a global context
Jonathan Evans, Aparna Dutt and Alberto Luis Fernández
