Description
Book SynopsisA new understanding of cognitive development from the perspective of neuroscience
This book provides a state-of-the-art understanding of the neural bases of cognitive development. Although the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience is still in its infancy, the authors effectively demonstrate that our understanding of cognitive development is and will be vastly improved as the mechanisms underlying development are elucidated.
The authors begin by establishing the value of considering neuroscience in order to understand child development and then provide an overview of brain development. They include a critical discussion of experience-dependent changes in the brain. The authors explore whether the mechanisms underlying developmental plasticity differ from those underlying adult plasticity, and more fundamentally, what distinguishes plasticity from development.
Having armed the reader with key neuroscience basics, the book begins its examinat
Trade Review"This book is a welcome addition to an already popular area of research and certainly deserves to become a project to be updated and re-released over the years." (
PsycCritiques, April 25, 2007)
Table of ContentsPreface.
Introduction: Why should developmental psychologists be interested in the brain?
1. Brain Development and Neural Plasticity.
2. Neural Plasticity.
3. Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience.
4. The Development of Speech and Language.
5. The Development of Declarative (or Explicit) Memory.
6. The Development of Nondeclarative (or Implicit) Memory.
7. The Development of Spatial Cognition.
8. The Development of Object Recognition.
9. The Development of Social Cognition.
10. The Development of Higher Cognition (Executive) Funtions.
11. The Development of Attention.
12. The Future of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
References.
Index.
