ABSTRACT
It is quite difficult to make a clear distinction between psychological and neuropsychological approaches to memory. On the one hand, many psychological concepts about memory have drawn on anecdotal observations of memory impairment in brain-damaged individuals, while, on the other, neuropsychologists have adopted many of the ideas about the structure and processes of memory from psychological investigations. If there is a difference in emphasis, it is that psychological research into memory function has tended to focus more on the structure and integrity of memory in ‘normal’ individuals, whereas the neuropsychological approach has concentrated primarily on the effects of brain damage or injury on memory function.
