Brain Development and Cognition
A Reader
2nd Edition
Published on 8. May 2008
560 pages
978-0-470-75202-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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"For child language researchers who wish to gain some background knowledge in this field, we reccommend this volume highly. This text is suitable for academics and students alike. It is an excellent source, and the associated teaching resources available on-line are well constructed and highly useful... The clarity and coherence of the overall argumements contained in the volume make the book a worthwhile component of any developmentalist's library." Vincent Reid & Tricia Striano, Cultural Ontogeny Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyMore details
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Mark H. Johnson is Director of the Centre for Brain andCognitive Development at Birkbeck College, University of London,and an MRC Senior Research Scientist. He has published over onehundred scholarly articles and four books on brain and cognitivedevelopment, including Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: AnIntroduction (1997). He is also on the editorial board ofseveral developmental journals and book series.
Yuko Munakata is currently an Assistant Professor inDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Denver.Her interests include memory development, dissociations in behaviorduring development and following brain damage, and neural networkmodels of cognitive development.
Rick O. Gilmore is Assistant Professor of Psychology atPennsylvania State University. His research focuses on thedevelopment of spatial perception and memory in infancy and theirrelationship to brain development.
Content
Contributors.
Preface..
Part I: Perspectives on Development.
Introduction.
1. Critique of the Modern Ethologists Attitude (KonardLorenz).
2. The Problem of Change (Susan Oyama).
3. The Epigenetic System and the Development of CognitiveFunctions (Jean Piaget).
4. From Gene to Organism: The Developing Individual as anEmergent, Interactional, Hierachical System (G.Gottlieb).
Part II: Brain Maturation.
Introduction.
5. General Principles of CNS Development (R .S. Nowakowski andN.L. Hayes).
6. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of NeocortialParcellation: A Radical Unit Model (P. Rakic).
7. Positron Emission Tomography Study of Human Brain FunctionalDevelopment (Harry T. Chugani, Michael E. Phelps and John C.Mazziotta).
8. Morphometric Study of Human Cerebral Cortex Developemt (PeterR. Huttenlocher).
Part III: Brain Maturation and Cognition.
Introduction.
9. The Development of Visual Attention: A Cognitive NeurosciencePerspective (Mark H. Johnson).
10. The Ontogeny of Human Memory: A Cognitive NeurosciencePerspective (C.A. Nelson).
Part IV: Brain Plasticity.
Introduction.
11. Experience and Brain Development (William T. Greenough,James E. Black and Christopher S. Wallace).
12. Do Cortical Areas Emerge from a Protocortex? (Dennis D. M.O'Leary).
13. Emergence of Order in Visual System Development (C.J.Shatz).
Part V: Brain Plasticity and Cognition.
Introduction.
14. Specificity and plasticity in Neurocognitive Development inHumans (H. Neville and D. Bavelier).
15. Linguistic, Cognitive, and Affective Development in Childrenwith Pre- and Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: A Ten-Year Overviewfrom the San Diego Longitudinal Project (Joan Stiles, Elizabeth A.Bates, Donna Thal, Doris A. Trauner, and Judy Reilly).
16. Cortical Plasticity Underlying Perceptual, Motor, andCognitive Skill Development: Implications for Neurorehabilitation(Michael M. Merzenich, Beverly A. Wright, William Jenkins,Christina Xerri, Nancy Byl, Steve. Miller and Paula. Tallal).
17. The Instinct to Learn (Peter Marler).
Part VI: Self Organization and Development.
Introduction.
18. Self-Organization in Developmental Processes: Can systemApproaches Work? (Esther Thelen).
19. Development Itself is the Key to Understanding DevelopmentalDisorders. Annette Karmiloff-Smith).
20. Object Recognition and Sensitive Periods: A ComputationalAnalysis of Visual Imprinting (Randall C. O'Reilly and MarkH. Johnson).
Part VII: New Directions.
Introduction.
21. Connectionism and the Study of Change: Elizabeth Bates andJeffrey L. Elman).
22. A Model System for Studying the Role of Dopamine inPrefrontal Cortex During Early Development in Humans (AdeleDiamond).
23. Genes and Brain: Individual Differences and HumanUniversals: Bruce F. Pennington).
Name Index.
Subject Index.
