Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience An Introduction.
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| Language: | English |
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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2015.
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| Series: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- About the Companion Website
- 1 The Biology of Change
- Viewpoints on Development
- Analyzing Development
- Why Take a Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Development?
- Why Take a Developmental Approach to Cognitive Neuroscience?
- The Cause of Developmental Change
- Three Viewpoints on Human Functional Brain Development
- Looking Forward
- 2 Methods and Populations
- Introdoction
- Behavioral and Cognitive Tasks
- Assessing Brain Function in Development
- Observing Brain Structure in Development
- Animal Studies and Genetics
- Developmental Disorders
- Atypically Developing Brains
- Sensory and Environmental Perturbations
- Familial Risk Populations
- 3 From Gene to Brain
- The History of the Gene
- Principles of Gene Function
- Genetics and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- The Epigenome
- The FOXP2 Gene
- 4 Building a Brain
- An Overview of Primate Brain Anatomy
- Prenatal Brain Development
- Postnatal Brain Development
- The Development of Cortical Areas: Protomap or Protocortex?
- Cortical Plasticity
- Differential Development of Human Cortex
- Postnatal Brain Development: Adolescence
- Postnatal Brain Development: The Hippocampus and Subcortical Structures
- Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators
- What Makes a Brain Human?
- General Summary and Conclusions
- 5 Vision, Orienting, and Attention
- The Development of Vision
- The Development of Visual Orienting
- Saccade Planning
- Visual Attention
- General Summary and Conclusions
- 6 Perceiving and Acting in a World of Objects
- The Dorsal and Ventral Visual Pathways
- Hidden Objects
- Neural Oscillations and Object Processing
- General Summary and Conclusions
- 7 Perceiving and Acting in the Social World
- The Social Brain
- Face Recognition
- The sensory hypothesis
- Newborns have complex face representations
- Face-biasing system ("Conspec")
- Filial Imprinting in Chicks
- Brain Development and Face Recognition
- Perceiving and Acting on the Eyes
- Understanding and Predicting the Behavior of Others
- The Atypical Social Brain
- General Summary and Conclusions
- 8 Learning and Long-Term Memory
- Development of Explicit Memory
- Implicit Memory
- General Summary and Conclusions
- 9 Language
- Inroduction
- Are Some Parts of Cortex Critical for Language Acquisition?
- Neural Basis of Speech Processing in Infants
- Influence of Experience on Brain Language Processing
- Neural Correlates of Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition
- General Summary and Conclusions
- 10 Prefrontal Cortex, Working Memory, and Decision-Making
- Introduction
- Prefrontal Cortex, Object Permanence, and Working Memory
- Prefrontal Cortex, Social Decision-Making, and Adolescence
- Prefrontal Cortex, Skill Learning, and Interactive Specialization