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Book SynopsisThis new book examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their capacity to benefit from their early motor and cognitive experiences. In so doing, it helps us better understand how experience affects brain growth and a child's capacity to learn. In this interdisciplinary book, the authors review the most significant research findings and historical scientific events related to early experience, the brain, and consciousness. Authors Dalton and Bergenn propose a new theory to help demonstrate the crucial roles of attention and memory in motor and perceptual development. The goal is to help readers better understand the differences between how individuals with normal and dysfunctional brains process information and how this impacts their ability to learn from experience.
Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness opens with a critical examination of why motor and perceptual development shoul
Table of ContentsContents: Preface. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in Developmental Neuroscience. Toward a General Theory of Neuropsychological Development. Prenatal Patterns of Neural Growth and Behavior. Postnatal Sensorimotor Integration. Experience and the Reorganization of the Brain: Animal and Infant Studies. The Neuropsychological Dynamics of Infant Learning. Language, the Self, and Social Cognition. Changing the Phenotype: Developing the Mind Through the Brain.
