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| Contents |
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Contributors. |
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Preface. |
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| Part I: Perspectives
on Development: |
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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. |
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| Part II: Brain Maturation:
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Introduction. |
| 5. |
General Principles of CNS Development:
R .S. Nowakowski & N.L. Hayes. |
| 6. |
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants
of Neocortial Parcellation: a Radical Unit Model: P. Rakic.
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| 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. |
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| Part III: Brain Maturation
and Cognition: |
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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 |
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| Part IV: Brain Plasticity: |
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Introduction. |
| 11. |
Experience and Brain Development: William
T. Greenough, James E. Black and Christopher S. Wallace. |
| 12. |
Do Cortical Areas Emerge from a Protocortex?:
Dennis D. M. O'Leary. |
| 13. |
Emergence of Order in Visual System Development:
C.J. Shatz. |
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| Part V: Brain Plasticity
and Cognition: |
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Introduction. |
| 14. |
Specificity and plasticity in Neurocognitive
Development in Humans: H. Neville & D. Bavelier. |
| 15. |
Linguistic, Cognitive, and Affective
Development in Children with Pre- and Perinatal Focal Brain
Injury: A Ten-Year Overview from the San Diego Longitudinal
Project: J. Stiles, E.A. Bates, D. Thal, D. Trauner, & J. Reilly.
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Cortical Plasticity Underlying Perceptual,
Motor, and Cognitive Skill Development: Implications for Neurorehabilitation:
M. Merzenich, B. Wright, W. Jenkins, C. Xerri, N. Byl, S. Miller
& P. Tallal. |
| 17. |
The Instinct to Learn: Peter Marler.
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| Part VI: Self Organization
and Development: |
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Introduction. |
| 18. |
Self-organization in developmental Processes:
Can system Approaches Work? E. Thelen. |
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Development itself is the key to understanding
developmental disorders. A. Karmiloff-Smith. |
| 20. |
Object Recognition and Sensitive Periods:
A Computational Analysis of Visual Imprinting: R.C. O'Reilly
& M.H. Johnson. |
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| Part VII: New Directions: |
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Introduction |
| 21. |
Connectionism and the Study of Change:
Elizabeth Bates and Jeffrey L. Elman. |
| 22. |
A Model System for Studying the Role
of Dopamine in Prefrontal Cortex During Early Development in
Humans: Early and Continuously Treated Phenylketonuria (PKU):
A. Diamond |
| 23. |
Genes and Brain: Individual Differences
and Human Universals: B.F. Pennington. |
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