Fundamental Issues for Understanding Abnormal Development
Studying the neuropsychology of abnormal development has forced revisions in the core premises underlying traditional neuropsychology, such as the notions of pure cases, independent cognitive processes, and the utility of double dissociations. Work with connectionist models is leading to a new, neuroconstructivist framework for understanding abnormal development.
Oliver, A., Johnson, M.H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Pennington, B. (2000). Deviations in the emergence of representations: A neuroconstructivist framework for analyzing developmental disorders. Developmental Science, 3, 1-40.
A critique of the static neuropsychological approach and an application of connectionist models to understanding abnormal development.
Van Orden, G.C., Pennington, B.F., & Stone, G.O. (2001). What do double dissociations prove? Cognitive Science, 25, 111-172.
A general critique of double dissociation logic and a specific critique of the supposed double dissociation between acquired surface and phonological dyslexia.
Pennington, B.F., Willcutt, E.G., & Rhee, S. (2005). Analyzing comorbidity. In R.V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior (pp. 263-304) (Vol. 33). Oxford: Elsevier.
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Pennington, B.F. (2006). From single to multiple-deficit models of developmental disorders. Cognition, 10(2), 385-413
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Pennington, B.F. (2009). How neuropsychology informs our understanding and developmental disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Annual Research Review, 50,72-78.
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Pennington, B.F., & Bishop D.V.M. (2008). Relations among speech, language and reading disorders. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 283-306. PMCID:18652545.
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Other Publication Areas:
Genetics of Dyslexia and Other LDs
Phenotype Analyses of Dyslexia
Neuropsychological Deficts in Autism
Neuropsychology of Intellectual Disability
Genetics and Neuropsychology of ADHD
Executive Functions
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