Brain Development and Cognition A Reader [Paperback]

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.Contributors.

Preface..

Part I: Perspectives on Development.

Introduction.

1. Critique of the Modern Ethologists Attitude (Konard Lorenz).

2. The Problem of Change (Susan Oyama).

3. The Epigenetic System and the Development of Cognitive Functions (Jean Piaget).

4. From Gene to Organism: The Developing Individual as an Emergent, Interactional, Hierachical System (G. Gottlieb).

Part II: Brain Maturation.

Introduction.

5. General Principles of CNS Development (R .S. Nowakowski and N.L. Hayes).

6. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Neocortial Parcellation: A Radical Unit Model (P. Rakic).

7. Positron Emission Tomography Study of Human Brain Functional Development (Harry T. Chugani, Michael E. Phelps and John C. Mazziotta).

8. Morphometric Study of Human Cerebral Cortex Developemt (Peter R. Huttenlocher).

Part III: Brain Maturation and Cognition.

Introduction.

9. The Development of Visual Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective (Mark H. Johnson).

10. The Ontogeny of Human Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective (C.A. Nelson).

Part IV: Brain Plasticity.

Introduction.

11. Experience and Brain Development (William T. Greenough, Jlƒ'