Brain Development and Cognition

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, 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).

Part V: Brain Plasticity and Cognition.

Introduction.

14. Specificity and plasticity in Neurocognitive Development in Humans (H. Neville and 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 (Joan Stiles, Elizabeth A. Bates, Donna Thal, Doris A. Trauner, and Judy Reilly).

16. Cortical Plasticity Underlying Perceptual, Motor, and Cognitive Skill Development: Implications for Neurorehabilitation (Michael M. Merzenich, Beverly A. Wright, William Jenkins, Christina Xerri, Nancy Byl, Steve. Miller and Paula. Tallal).

17. The Instinct to Learn (Peter Marler).

Part VI: Self Organization and Development.

Introduction.

18. Self-Organization in Developmental Processes: Can system Approaches Work? (Esther Thelen).

19. Development Itself is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders. Annette Karmiloff-Smith).

20. Object Recognition and Sensitive Periods: A Computational Analysis of Visual Imprinting (Randall C. O?Reilly and Mark H. Johnson).

Part VII: New Directions.

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 (Adele Diamond).

23. Genes and Brain: Individual Differences and Human Universals: Bruce F. Pennington).

Name Index.

Subject Index.