Spatial Cognition: Brain Bases and Development

✍ Scribed by Joan Stiles-Davis, Mark Kritchevsky, Ursula Bellugi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 472
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Looking at the ways humans perceive, interpret, remember, and interact with events occurring in space, this book focuses on two aspects of spatial cognition: How does spatial cognition develop? What is the relation between spatial cognition and the brain? This book offers a unique opportunity to share the combined efforts of scientists from varied disciplines, including cognitive and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, behavioral neurology, and neurobiology in the process of interacting and exchanging ideas. Based on a conference held at the Neuroscience Conference Center of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, this book explores current scientific trends seeking a biological basis for understanding the relationships among brain, mind, and behavior.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
FOREWORD
PART I SPATIAL COGNITION IN ADULTS
INTRODUCTION
1 THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF SPATIAL COGNITION
2 THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF MENTAL IMAGERY
3 THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL BASIS OF SPATIAL COGNITION: ROLE OF THE PARIETAL LOBE
4 THE ROLE OF TRANSFORMATIONS IN SPATIAL COGNITION
5 THE ELEMENTARY SPATIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN
PART II THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL COGNITION
INTRODUCTION
6 PERCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF SPATIAL COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
7 INFANT MOBILITY AND SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT
8 CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL COGNITION
9 CHILDREN'S VERBAL REPRESENTATION OF SPATIAL LOCATION
10 INTERRELATION OF LOGICAL AND SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE IN PRESCHOOLERS
11 DRAWING THE BOUNDARY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISTINCT SYSTEMS FOR SPATIAL REPRESENTATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN
PART III EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT EARLY EXPERIENCES
INTRODUCTION
12 SPATIAL DYSFUNCTIONS IN YOUNG CHILDREN WITH RIGHT CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE INJURY
13 SPATIAL DEFICITS IN CHILDREN WITH WILLIAMS SYNDROME
14 SPATIAL COGNITION AND BRAIN ORGANIZATION: CLUES FROM THE ACQUISITION OF A LANGUAGE IN SPACE
15 CEREBRAL ORGANIZATION FOR SPATIAL ATTENTION
16 THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE IN BLIND AND SIGHTED CHILDREN
17 NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL COGNITION
PART IV DISCUSSIONS
INTRODUCTION
18 SPATIAL COGNITION IN ADULTS
19 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL COGNITION: ON TOPOLOGICAL AND EUCLIDEAN REPRESENTATION
20 EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT EARLY EXPERIENCES
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX