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

List of Figures viii List of Tables xi Preface to the First Edition xii Preface to the Fourth Edition xiv Acknowledgements xv Abbreviations xix About the Companion Website xxi 1 The Biology of Change 1 2 Methods and Populations 17 3 From Gene to Brain 32 4 Building a Brain 43 5 Vision, Orienting, and Attention 83 6 Perceiving and Acting in a World of Objects 110 7 Perceiving and Acting in the Social World 121 8 Learning and Long-Term Memory 153 9 Language 166 10 Prefrontal Cortex, Working Memory, and Decision-Making 183 11 Cerebral Lateralization 197 12 Educational Neuroscience 205 13 Interactive Specialization 221 14 Toward an Integrated Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 240 References 251 Index 300