Developmental cognitive neuroscience : an introduction /
Mark H. Johnson and Michelle de Haan.
- 4th ed.
- Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
- xx, 310 p. : ill. b&w and col. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1 The Biology of Change -- Ch. 2 Methods and Populations -- Ch. 3 From Gene to Brain -- Ch. 4 Building a Brain -- Ch. 5 Vision, Orienting, and Attention -- Ch. 6 Perceiving and Acting in a World of Objects -- Ch. 7 Perceiving and Acting in the Social World -- Ch. 8 Learning and Long-Term Memory -- Ch. 9 Language -- Ch. 10 Prefrontal Cortex, Working Memory, and Decision-Making -- Ch. 11 Cerebral Lateralization -- Ch. 12 Educational Neuroscience -- Ch. 13. Interactive Specialization -- Ch. 14. Toward an Integrated Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. - Offers a comprehensive introduction to all issues relating to the nature of brain-behaviour relationships and development - New or greatly expanded coverage of topics such as epigenetics and gene expression, cell migration and stem cells, sleep and learning/memory, socioeconomic status and development of prefrontal cortex function - Includes a new chapter on educational neuroscience, featuring the latest findings on the application of cognitive neuroscience methods in school-age educational contexts - Includes a variety of student-friendly features such as chapter-end discussion, practical applications of basic research, and material on recent technological breakthroughs.