Humans, apes and monkeys: the changing neuropsychological viewpoint.
Four areas (cognitive capacity, cerebral lateralization, the structural basis of amnesia, and disorders of reaching with parietal lesions) are reviewed with respect to comparative differences between human and non-human primates in 1963 and two decades later. It is concluded that in all four areas the discontinuities very clearly evident in 1963 have either been resolved or have become blurred. It is argued that this trend was furthered by Hécaen's editorial policy for Neuropsychologia and that clinical neuropsychology and experimental (animal) neuropsychology can be expected to converge increasingly during the next 20 yr.
D000647:Amnesia / Q000503:physiopathology; D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D010802:Phylogeny; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology