Brain Development and Cognition

Mark H. Johnson is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MRC Senior Research Scientist. He has published over one hundred scholarly articles and four books on brain and cognitive development, including Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: An Introduction (1997). He is editor of the international journal Developmental Science. Yuko Munakata is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the University of Denver. Her interests include memory development, dissociations in behavior during development and following brain damage, and neural network models of cognitive development. Rick O. Gilmore is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the development of spatial perception and memory in infancy and their relationship to brain development.

Contributors. Preface. Part I: Perspectives on Development: 1. Critique of the Modern Ethologists Attitude: Konard Lorenz. 2. The Problem of Change: Susan Oyama. 3. The Epigenetic Sytem and the Development of Cognitive Funstions: Jean Piaget. 4. Toward a Biological Theory of Language Development: Eric H. Lenneberg. Part II: Brain Maturation: Introduction. 5. Basic Concepts of CNS Development: R . S. Nowakowski. 6. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Neocortial Parcellation: a Radical Unit Model: P. Rakic. 7. Morphometric Study of Human Cerebral Cortex Developemt: Peter R. Huttenlocher. 8. Positron Emission Tomography Study of Human Brain Functional Developemnt: Harry T. Chugani, Michael E. Phelps and John C. Mazziotta. Part III: Brain Maturation and Cognition: Introduction. 9. Binocular Vision- Behavioural and Neural Development: Richard Held. 10. Cortical Maturation and the Development of Visual Attention in Early Infancy: Mark H. Johnson. 11. An Early and a Late Developing System for Learning and Retention in Infant Monkeys: Jocelyne Bachevalier and Mortimer Mishkin. 12. Neurophysical Insights into the Meaning of Object Concept Development: Adele Diamond. 13. Critical Period Effects in Second Language Learning: the Influence of Maturational State on the Acquisition of English as a Second Language: Jacqueline S. Johnson and Elissa L. Newport. Part IV: Brain Plasticity: Introduction. 14. Experience and Brain Development: William T. Greenough, James E. Black and Christopher S. Wallace. 15. Do Cortical Areas Emerge from a Protocortex? : Dennis D. M. O'Leary. 16. Brain Development, Plasticity and Behavior: Bryan Kolb. Part V: Brain Plasticity and Cognition: Introduction. 17. Neuronal Models of Cognitive Functions: Jean-Pierre Changeux and Stanislas Dehaene. 18. Language, Modality and the Brain: Ursula Bellugi, Howard Poizner and Edward S. Klima. 19. Neurobiology of Cognitive and Language Processing: Effects of Early Experience: Helen J. Neville. Part VI: Constraints on Plasticity: Introduction. 20. The Instinct to Learn: Peter Marler. 21. Brain Mechanisms of Memory and Predisposition: Interactive Sudies of Cerebral Function and Behavior: gabriel Horn. 22. Limitations on Input as a Basis for Neural Organization and Perceptual Devlopment: a Preliminary Theoretical Statement: Gerald Turkewitz and Patricia A. Kenny. Part VII: Self Organization and Development: Introduction. 23. Ocular Dominance Column Development: Analysis and Simulation: Kenneth D. Miller, Joseph B. Keller and Michael P. Stryker. 24. Self-Organization and Cognitive Change: Elizabeth Bates and Jeffrey L. Elman. 27. Linguistic and Spatial Cognitive Development Following Early Focal Brain Injury: Patterns of Deficit and Recovery: Joan Stiles and Donna Thal. 28. The Development and Neural Basis of Memory Systems: Jeri S. Janowsky. 29. The Neurobiology of Handedness, Language and Cerebral Dominance: a Model for the Molecular Genetics of Behavior: I. C. McManus and M. P. Bryden. Index.