تفاوتهای فردی در روانشناسی شناختی

Professor Bob Stelmack from the University of Ottawa (I was a graduate student at U of O when he started his career there) stressed both as a teacher and a researcher the importance of individual differences. In neuropsychology, this is often evidenced by the problems of variability of performance within a supposedly well-defined homogeneous group. This review presents examples from my research in traumatic brain injury and the effects of frontal lobe focal pathology to illustrate how an emphasis on individual differences had to be applied to advance the understanding of specific brain-behaviour relations and the role of the frontal lobes in human behaviour. This focus is equally relevant in organizing a larger scale research structure integrating diverse sources of information (e.g., genetic to behavioural) and basic and clinical science to improve diagnoses and treatment – the push to more individualized care.