Brain Development and Cognition A Reader

by Johnson, Mark H.; Munakata, Yuko; Gilmore, Rick O.

• ISBN13: 9780631217374
• ISBN10: 0631217371
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The first edition of this successful reader brought together key readings in the area of developmental cognitive neuroscience for students. Now updated in order to keep up with this fast moving field, the volume includes new readings illustrating recent developments along with updated versions of previous contributions. These revisions ensure that the collection will remain a crucial resource for anyone teaching developmental cognitive neuroscience or cognitive development. The Reader is broad-ranging, covering every aspect of developmental cognitive neuroscience. New pieces for the second edition include writing on individual development and evolution, on the structural and functional development of the brain and on object recognition and sensitive periods, whilst articles updated include those on the neurobiology of cognitive and language processing and self-organization in developmental processes.

Author Biography

Mark H. Johnson is Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MRC Senior Research Scientist. He has published over one hundred scholarly articles and four books on brain and cognitive development, including Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: An Introduction (1997). He is also on the editorial board of several developmental journals and book series.

Yuko Munakata is currently an Assistant Professor in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Denver. Her interests include memory development, dissociations in behavior during development and following brain damage, and neural network models of cognitive development.

Rick O. Gilmore is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the development of spatial perception and memory in infancy and their relationship to brain development.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Preface to First Edition	x
Preface to Second Edition	xii
Acknowledgements	xiii
Part I Perspectives on Development	1	(50)
Editors' Introduction to Part I	3	(5)
Critique of the Modern Ethologists' Attitude	8	(10)
Konrad Lorenz
The Problem of Change	18	(11)
Susan Oyama
The Epigenetic System and the Development of Cognitive	29	(7)
Jean Piaget
From Gene to Organism: The Developing Individual as an Emergent, Interactional, Hierarchical System	36	(15)
Gilbert Gottlieb
Part II Brain Maturation	51	(78)
Editors' Introduction to Part II	53	(4)
General Principles of CNS Development	57	(26)
Richard S. Nomakomski
Nancy L. Hayes
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Neocortical Parcellation: A Radial Unit Model	83	(18)
Pasko Rakic
Positron Emission Tomography Study of Human Brain Functional Development	101	(16)
Harry T. Chugani
Michael E. Phelps
John C. Mazziotta
Morphometric Study of Human Cerebral Cortex Development	117	(12)
Peter R. Huttenlocher
Part III Brain Maturation and Cognition	129	(50)
Editors' Introduction to Part III	131	(3)
The Development of Visual Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective	134	(17)
Mark H. Johnson
The Ontogeny of Human Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective	151	(28)
Charles A. Nelson
Part IV Brain Plasticity	179	(66)
Editors' Introduction to Part IV	181	(5)
Experience and Brain Development	186	(31)
William T. Greenough
James E. Black
Christopher S. Wallace
Do Cortical Areas Emerge from a Protocortex?	217	(14)
Dennis D. M. O'Leary
Emergence of Order in Visual System Development	231	(14)
Carla F. Shatz
Part V Brain Plasticity and Cognition	245	(86)
Editors' Introduction to Part V	247	(4)
Specificity and Plasticity in Neurocognitive Development in Humans	251	(21)
Helen F. Neville
Daphne Bavelier
Linguistic and Spatial Cognitive Development in Children with Pre- and Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: A Ten-Year Overview from the San Diego Longitudinal Project	272	(20)
Joan Stiles
Elizabeth A. Bates
Donna Thal
Doris A. Trauner
Judy Reilly
Cortical Plasticity Underlying Perceptual, Motor, and Cognitive Skill Development: Implications for Neurorehabilitation	292	(13)
Michael M. Merzenich
Beverly A. Wright
William Jenkins
Christian Xerri
Nancy Byl
Steve Miller
Paula Tallal
The Instinct to Learn	305	(26)
Peter Marler
Part VI Self-organization and Development	331	(84)
Editors' Introduction to Part VI	333	(3)
Self-organization in Developmental Processes: Can Systems Approaches Work?	336	(39)
Esther Thelen
Development Itself is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders	375	(17)
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Object Recognition and Sensitive Periods: A Computational Analysis of Visual Imprinting	392	(23)
Randall C. O'Reilly
Mark H. Johnson
Part VII New Directions	415	(94)
Editors' Introduction to Part VII	417	(3)
Connectionism and the Study of Change	420	(21)
Elizabeth A. Bates
Jeffrey L. Elman
A Model System for Studying the Role of Dopamine in Prefrontal Cortex During Early Development in Humans	441	(53)
Adele Diamond
Genes and Brain: Individual Differences and Human Universals	494	(15)
Bruce F. Pennington
Name Index	509	(15)
Subject Index	524