Brain Development and Cognition: A Reader

Brain Development and Cognition A Reader......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 10
Preface to First Edition......Page 12
Preface to Second Edition......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Part I Perspectives on Development......Page 17
Editors' Introduction to Part I......Page 19
1 Critique of the Modern Ethologists' Attitude......Page 24
2 The Problem of Change......Page 34
3 The Epigenetic System and the Development of Cognitive Functions......Page 45
4 From Gene to Organism: The Developing Individual as an Emergent, Interactional, Hierarchical System......Page 52
Part II Brain Maturation......Page 67
Editors' Introduction to Part II......Page 69
5 General Principles of CNS Development......Page 73
6 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Neocortical Parcellation: A Radial Unit Model......Page 99
7 Positron Emission Tomography Study of Human Brain Functional Development......Page 117
8 Morphometric Study of Human Cerebral Cortex Development......Page 133
Part III Brain Maturation and Cognition......Page 145
Editors' Introduction to Part III......Page 147
9 The Development of Visual Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective......Page 150
10 The Ontogeny of Human Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective......Page 167
Part IV Brain Plasticity......Page 195
Editors' Introduction to Part IV......Page 197
11 Experience and Brain Development......Page 202
12 Do Cortical Areas Emerge from a Protocortex?......Page 233
13 Emergence of Order in Visual System Development......Page 247
Part V Brain Plasticity and Cognition......Page 261
Editors' Introduction to Part V......Page 263
14 Specificity and Plasticity in Neurocognitive Development in Humans......Page 267
15 Linguistic and Spatial Cognitive Development in Children with Pre- and Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: A Ten-Year Overview from the San Diego Longitudinal Project......Page 288
16 Cortical Plasticity Underlying Perceptual, Motor, and Cognitive Skill Development: Implications for Neurorehabilitation......Page 308
17 The Instinct to Learn......Page 321
Part VI Self-organization and Development......Page 347
Editors' Introduction to Part VI......Page 349
18 Self-organization in Developmental Processes: Can Systems Approaches Work?......Page 352
19 Development Itself is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders......Page 391
20 Object Recognition and Sensitive Periods: A Computational Analysis of Visual Imprinting......Page 408
Part VII New Directions......Page 431
Editors' Introduction to Part VII......Page 433
21 Connectionism and the Study of Change......Page 436
22 A Model System for Studying the Role of Dopamine in Prefrontal Cortex During Early Development in Humans......Page 457
23 Genes and Brain: Individual Differences and Human Universals......Page 510
Name Index......Page 525
Subject Index......Page 540