Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology

This book 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 functioning.

Alberto Luis Fernández is the Head of the Research Department at the Catholic University of Córdoba in Argentina, where he also teaches neuropsychology and psychometrics. He has worked in cross-cultural neuropsychological test adaptation and development and published several articles on the topic and is currently developing a cross-cultural test (The Multicultural Neuropsychological Scale) whose preliminary results have been published. He has been in collaboration with Dr. Jonathan Evans for the last three years in different projects on the topic, among them the organization of a workshop in Chile and the presentation of a course in the INS meeting in Washington in 2018. Jonathan Evans moved in 1991 to work at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit (now MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) in Cambridge. In 1996 he became the founding Clinical Director of the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely. In October 2003 he moved to his current position at the University of Glasgow, where he is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology and Program Director for the MSc in Clinical Neuropsychology.

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