Brain development and cognition : a reader / [edited by] Mark H. Johnson, Yuko Munakata, and Rick O. Gilmore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Perspectives on development. Critique in the modern ethologists' attitude / Konrad Lorenz -- The Problem of change / Susan Oyama -- The Epigenetic system and the development of cognitive functions / Jean Piaget -- From gene to organism : the developing individual as an emergent, interactional, hierarchical system / Gilbert Gottlieb -- Brain maturation. General principles of CNS development / Richard S. Nowakowski, Nancy L. Hayes -- Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of neocortical parcellation : a radical unit model / Pasko Rakic -- Positron emitssion tomography study of human brain functional development / Harry T. Chugani, Michael E. Phelps, John C. Mazziotta -- Morphometric study of human cerebral cortex development / Peter R. Huttenlocher -- Brain maturation and cognition. The Development of visual attention : a cognitive neuroscience perspective / Mark H. Johnson -- The Ontogeny of human memory : a cognitive neuroscience perspective / Charles A. Nelson -- Brain plasticity. Experience and brain development / William T. Greenough, James E. Black, Christopher S. Wallace -- Do cortical areas emerge from a protocortex? / Dennis D.M. O'Leary -- Emergence of order in visual system development / Carla J. Shatz -- Brain plasticity and cognition. Specificity and plasticity in neurocognitive development in humans / Helen J. Neville, Daphne Bavelier -- Linguistic and spatial cognitive development in children with pre- and perinatal focal brain injury : a ten-year overview from the San Diego longitudinal project / Joan Stiles, [and others] -- Cortical plasticity underlying perceptual, motor and cognitive skill development : implications for neurorehabilitation / Michael M. Merzenich, [and others] -- The instinct to learn / Peter Marler -- Self-organization and development. Slef-organization in developmental processes : can systems approaches work? / Esther Thelen -- Development itself is the key to understanding developmental disorders / Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- Object recognition and sensitive periods : a computational analysis of visual imprinting / Randall C. O'Reily, Mark H. Johnson -- New directions. Connectionism and the study of change / Elizabeth A. Bates, Jeffrey L. Elman -- A Model system for studying the role of dopamine in prefronatal cortex during early development in humans / Adele Diamond -- Genes and brain : individual differences and human universals / Bruce F. Pennington.

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