Analyses the contribution made by cognitve neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes. Selected to present some of the most hotly debated topics in the field today.

R.A. Johnston, N.R. Braisby,Introduction. SECTION I. R.A. Johnston,Studies in Visual Recognition. Part 1. R.A. Johnston,Object Recognition: Opening Boxes.E.M.E. Forde, G.W. Humphreys, Category-specific Recognition Impairments: A Review of Important Case Studies and Influential Theories. M.J. Farah, J.L. McClelland, A Computational Model of Semantic Memory Impairment: Modality Specificity and Emergent Category Specificity. J.T. Devlin, L.M. Gonnerman, E.S. Andersen, M.S. Seidenberg, Category-specific Semantic Deficits in Focal and Widespread Brain Damage: A Computational Account. Part 2. R.A. Johnston,Face Recognition: Mapping Routes.J.E. McNeil, E.K. Warrington, Prosopagnosia: A Face-Specific Disorder. A.W. Young, D. Hellawell, E.H.F. De Haan, Cross-domain Semantic Priming in Normal Subjects and a Prosopagnosic Patient. A.M. Burton, A.W. Young, V. Bruce, R.A. Johnston, A.W. Ellis, Understanding Covert Recognition. M.J. Farah, R.C. O'Reilly, S.P. Vecera, Dissociated Overt and Covert Recognition as an Emergent Property of a Lesioned Neural Network. A.M. Burton, A.W. Young, Simulation and Explanation: Some Harmony and Some Discord. SECTION II. G. Cohen,Studies in Language Processes. Part 3. K. Plunkett, G. Cohen,Speech Production: Rules and Rehabilitation.V.A. Marchman, Constraints on Plasticity in a Connectionist Model of the English Past Tense. W. Marslen-Wilson, L.K. Tyler, Rules, Representations, and the English Past Tense. P. Juola, K. Plunkett, Why Double Dissociations Don't Mean Much. M. Martin, E.M. Saffran, G.S. Dell, Recovery in Deep Dysphasia: Evidence for a Relation Between Auditory-verbal STM Capacity and Lexical Errors in Repetition. Part 4. P. Naish,Reading: Modelling the Deficits.M. Coltheart, B. Curtis, P. Atkins, M. Haller, Models of Reading Aloud: Dual-route and Parallel-distributed-processing Approaches. G.E. Hinton, D.C. Plaut, T. Shallice, Simulating Brain Damage. K. Mayall, G.W. Humphreys, Covert Recognition in a Connectionist Model of Pure Alexia. G. Cohen,Overview. Glossary. Bibliography.

Gillan Cohen was formerly Professor of Psychology at the Open University where she produces courses in cognitive psychology. Her research has focused on ageing, naming faces and memory.
Robert Johnston is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Birmingham University. He has researched and published extensively on models of face recognition and object recogntion, including both clinical and computational approaches.
Kim Plunkett is Professor of Cognitive Neuropscience at the University of Oxford. His main research interest is in connectionist modelling.