Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Michelle D H de Haan, Iroise Dumontheil, Mark H Johnson

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behavior during infancy, childhood, and adolescence

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience provides an accessible introduction to the main methods, theories, and empirical findings of developmental cognitive neuroscience. The focus is on human development from in utero to early adulthood, but key comparative work is also included. This new edition covers research in clinical/medical populations, educational applications and major advancements in methods and analysis, in particular with increasing longitudinal research focusing on understanding the mechanisms of cognitive development. It also contains a new chapter on global and cross-cultural perspectives outlining how developmental cognitive neuroscience has been applied in different settings and how techniques can be successfully adapted.

The text features a variety of student-friendly features such as chapter-end discussion, applications of basic research, and introductions to key experimental methods. An accompanying related resource website for students and educators that includes a test bank of multiple choice questions is also provided.

Other sample topics covered in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience include:

• Biology of change, methods, and populations, from gene to brain, building a brain, and vision, orienting, and attention
• Perceiving and acting in a world of objects, learning, and long-term memory, language, and prefrontal cortex, working memory, and decision-making
• Perceiving and acting in the social world, educational neuroscience, interactive specialization, and integrating development cognitive neuroscience
• Mid-childhood and adolescent development, social cognition and neuroimaging, and broader cognitive neuroscience approaches and theory

With expansive yet accessible coverage of the subject, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is an ideal resourcefor upper level undergraduate and early postgraduate readers. The text will further appeal to professionals in fields that have adopted developmental cognitive neuroscience approaches, such as education, clinical psychology, pediatric medicine and global health.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Fifth Edition
About the Companion Website
Chapter 1 The Biology of Change
Viewpoints on Development
Analyzing Development
Why Take a Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Development?
Why Take a Developmental Approach to Cognitive Neuroscience?
The Cause of Developmental Change
Three Viewpoints on Human Functional Brain Development
Interactive Specialization
Looking Forward
Chapter 2 Methods and Populations
Introduction
Behavioral and Cognitive Tasks
Assessing Brain Function in Development
Observing Brain Structure in Development
Animal Studies and Genetics
Neurodiversity and Developmental Disorders
Atypically Developing Brains
Sensory and Environmental Variations
Familial Risk Populations
Chapter 3 From Gene to Brain
The History of the Gene
Principles of Gene Function
Genetics and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
The Epigenome
The FOXP2 Gene
Chapter 4 Building a Brain
An Overview of Primate Brain Anatomy
Prenatal Brain Development
Postnatal Brain Development
The Development of Cortical Areas: Protomap or Protocortex?
Differential Development of Human Cortex
Postnatal Brain Development: Adolescence
Postnatal Brain Development: The Hippocampus and Subcortical Structures
Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators
What Makes a Brain Human?
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 5 Vision, Orienting, and Attention
The Development of Vision
The Development of Visual Orienting
Saccade Planning
Visual Attention
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 6 Perceiving and Acting in a World of Objects
The Dorsal and Ventral Visual Pathways
Hidden Objects
Neural Oscillations and Object Processing
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 7 Perceiving and Acting on the Social World
The Social Brain
Face Recognition
Brain Development and Face Recognition in Humans
Perceiving and Acting on the Eyes
Understanding and Predicting the Behavior of Others
The Atypical Social Brain
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 8 Learning and Long-Term Memory
Development of Explicit Memory
Implicit Memory
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 9 Language
Introduction
Are Some Parts of Cortex Critical for Language Acquisition?
Neural Basis of Speech Processing in Infants
Influence of Experience on Brain Language Processing
Neural Correlates of Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 10 Prefrontal Cortex, Executive Functions, and Decision-Making
Introduction
Prefrontal Cortex and Object Permanence
Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Functions Development During Adolescence
Social Decision-Making and Self-Regulation During Adolescence
Prefrontal Cortex, Skill Learning, and Interactive Specialization
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 11 Educational Neuroscience
Numeracy
Literacy
Domain-General Skills: Executive Functions and Processing Speed
Individual Differences and Training Interventions
Dyscalculia and Dyslexia
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 12 Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Factors to Consider in Global, Cross-Cultural Settings
Cognitive Neurosciences Approaches to Look at Commonalities Across Global/Cultural Settings
Infants’ Response to Novelty
Social Processing
Numeracy and Literacy
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Examining Factors Affecting Similarities and Differences Among Global Settings and Cultures
Maternal Stress, Caregiving and Education and Brain Responses to Social Stimuli
Interactions Between Factors Predicting Individual Differences in Neurocognition
Brain Responses in the Context of Global-Specific Risk
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 13 Toward an Integrated Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Introduction
Three Viewpoints on Human Functional Brain Development
Interactive Specialization (IS)
Emerging Networks
Genes and Cognitive Development
Relations Between Brain Structure and Function in Development
Neuroconstructivism
Criticisms of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Applications of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Concluding Remarks
References
Index
Supplemental Images
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