Neuroscience of Cognitive Development: The Role of Experience and the Developing BrainISBN: 978-0-471-74586-0
Hardcover
224 pages
April 2006
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Preface.
Introduction: Why should developmental psychologists be interested in the brain?
1. Brain Development and Neural Plasticity.
2. Neural Plasticity.
3. Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience.
4. The Development of Speech and Language.
5. The Development of Declarative (or Explicit) Memory.
6. The Development of Nondeclarative (or Implicit) Memory.
7. The Development of Spatial Cognition.
8. The Development of Object Recognition.
9. The Development of Social Cognition.
10. The Development of Higher Cognition (Executive) Funtions.
11. The Development of Attention.
12. The Future of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
References.
Index.