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9780470752029

Brain Development and Cognition: A Reader, 2nd Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470752029

  • ISBN10:

    0470752025

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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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.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Perspectives on Development
Introduction
Critique of the Modern Ethologists Attitude
The Problem of Change
The Epigenetic System and the Development of Cognitive Functions
From Gene to Organism: The Developing Individual as an Emergent, Interactional, Hierachical System
Brain Maturation
Introduction
General Principles of CNS Development
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Neocortial Parcellation: A Radical Unit Model
Positron Emission Tomography Study of Human Brain Functional Development
Morphometric Study of Human Cerebral Cortex Developemt
Brain Maturation and Cognition
Introduction
The Development of Visual Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
The Ontogeny of Human Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Brain Plasticity
Introduction
Experience and Brain Development
Do Cortical Areas Emerge from a Protocortex?
Emergence of Order in Visual System Development
Brain Plasticity and Cognition
Introduction
Specificity and plasticity in Neurocognitive Development in Humans
Linguistic, Cognitive, and Affective Development in Children with Pre- and Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: A Ten-Year Overview from the San Diego Longitudinal Project
Cortical Plasticity Underlying Perceptual, Motor, and Cognitive Skill Development: Implications for Neurorehabilitation
The Instinct to Learn
Self Organization and Development
Introduction
Self-Organization in Developmental Processes: Can system Approaches Work?
Development Itself is the Key to Understanding Developmental DisordersAnnette Karmiloff-Smith)
Object Recognition and Sensitive Periods: A Computational Analysis of Visual Imprinting
New Directions
Introduction
Connectionism and the Study of Change
A Model System for Studying the Role of Dopamine in Prefrontal Cortex During Early Development in Humans
Genes and Brain: Individual Differences and Human Universals
Name Index
Subject Index
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