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Although it shares cognitive neurosciences roots, cognitive psychophysiology has schooled into a discrete discipline. While cognitive neuroscience studies neural organisation of the brain, cognitive psychophysiology concerns itself with the brains structural architecture Coltheart (2010) describes this as a trait amid brain and mind. fit in to, among others, Coltheart (2002, cited Coltheart, 2010) this makes cognitive neuropsychology a class of cognitive psychology instead than neuroscience. Patient baptistry studies have compete a critical character reference in developing cognitive neuropsychology into a separate discipline, although selective culture from case studies can support and correct progress cognitive neuroscientific findings about neural architecture. Cognitive neuroscientific research has set dorsal and ventral ocular paths (e.g. Shapley, 1995, cited freeway and Edgar, 2010) in the brain, known individually as the where and the what pathways. A case education of patient DF by Milner and Goodale (1995, cited Pike and Edgar, 2010) found impairment in face and object recognition and visual discrimination, suggesting damage to the ventral pathway. When asked to surcharge up a small disc, the breadth of which she could not judge, the distance between DFs index finger and quarter round correlated highly with the genuine disc width, suggesting that she was able to guide sue using size information unavailable to conscious report. Milner and Goodale went on to develop the ventral/dorsal dissociation theory by suggesting that the ventral what pathway processes object recognition piece of music the dorsal where system drives action in relation to an object (Goodale and Milner, 1992 Milner and Goodale, 1995, twain cited Pike and Edgar, 2010). Thus a patie... ...In Kaye, H. (Ed,), Methods blighter (2nd ed., pp. 59-102). Milton Keynes The contribute University.Patterson, K. And Plaut, D.C. (2009). Shallow blueprint Intoxicate t he Brain Lessons from Cognitive scientific discipline for Cognitive Neuropsychology, Topics in Cognitive Science, vol. 1 (1), pp.39-58. Pike, G. and Edgar, G. (2010). Perception. In Kaye, H. (Ed,), Cognitive psychological science (2nd ed., pp. 63-104). Milton Keynes The Open University.Rutherford, A. (2010). Long-term memory encoding to recuperation. In Kaye, H. (Ed,), Cognitive Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 63-104). Milton Keynes The Open University.Wierenga, C.E., Maher, L.M., Moore, A., White, K.D., McGregor, K., Soltysik, D.A. and Crosson, B. (2006). Neural substrates of syntactic use treatment An fMRI study of two cases, Journal of the International neuropsychological Society, vol. 12(1), pp.132-146. The Contribution of Patient Case Studies on our Understanding of CognitAlthough it shares cognitive neurosciences roots, cognitive neuropsychology has developed into a discrete discipline. While cognitive neuroscience studies neural organisation of the brain, cognitive neuropsychology concerns itself with the brains functional architecture Coltheart (2010) describes this as a distinction between brain and mind. According to, among others, Coltheart (2002, cited Coltheart, 2010) this makes cognitive neuropsychology a branch of cognitive psychology rather than neuroscience. Patient case studies have played a critical role in developing cognitive neuropsychology into a separate discipline, although data from case studies can support and even progress cognitive neuroscientific findings about neural architecture. Cognitive neuroscientific research has identified dorsal and ventral visual pathways (e.g. Shapley, 1995, cited Pike and Edgar, 2010) in the brain, known respectively as the where and the what pathways. A case study of patient DF by Milner and Goodale (1995, cited Pike and Edgar, 2010) found impairment in face and object recognition and visual discrimination, suggesting damage to the ventral pathway. When asked to pick up a small disc, the wi dth of which she could not judge, the distance between DFs index finger and thumb correlated highly with the actual disc width, suggesting that she was able to guide action using size information unavailable to conscious report. Milner and Goodale went on to develop the ventral/dorsal dissociation theory by suggesting that the ventral what pathway processes object recognition while the dorsal where system drives action in relation to an object (Goodale and Milner, 1992 Milner and Goodale, 1995, both cited Pike and Edgar, 2010). Thus a patie... ...In Kaye, H. (Ed,), Methods Companion (2nd ed., pp. 59-102). Milton Keynes The Open University.Patterson, K. And Plaut, D.C. (2009). Shallow Draughts Intoxicate the Brain Lessons from Cognitive Science for Cognitive Neuropsychology, Topics in Cognitive Science, vol. 1 (1), pp.39-58. Pike, G. and Edgar, G. (2010). Perception. In Kaye, H. (Ed,), Cognitive Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 63-104). Milton Keynes The Open University.Rutherford, A. (2010 ). Long-term memory encoding to retrieval. In Kaye, H. (Ed,), Cognitive Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 63-104). Milton Keynes The Open University.Wierenga, C.E., Maher, L.M., Moore, A., White, K.D., McGregor, K., Soltysik, D.A. and Crosson, B. (2006). Neural substrates of syntactic mapping treatment An fMRI study of two cases, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, vol. 12(1), pp.132-146.