Brain Development and Cognition A Reader

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.

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.

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

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