Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 026214073X ISBN 13 : 9780262140737

Editeur : Bradford Books, 2001

Synopsis

An overview of the new techniques that account for the progress and heightened activity in developmental cognitive science research.

The publication of this handbook testifies to the rapid growth of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging and recording technologies, along with well-defined behavioral tasks—the essential methodological tools of cognitive neuroscience—are now being used to study development. Whereas earlier methodologies allowed scientists to study only adult brains, recent technological advances have yielded methods that can be safely used to study structure-function relations and their development in children's brains. These new techniques combined with more refined cognitive models account for the progress and heightened activity in developmental cognitive neuroscience research.

The handbook contains forty-one original contributions exploring basic aspects of neural development, sensory and sensorimotor systems, language, cognition, and emotion. Aided by recent results in neurobiology establishing that the human brain remains malleable and plastic throughout much of the lifespan, the contributors also explore the implications of lifelong neural plasticity for brain and behavioral development.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Monica Luciana is Associate Professor of Psychology and Child Development at the University of Minnesota.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bradford Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 026214073X
• ISBN 13: 9780262140737
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 776
• Éditeur: Collins Monica Luciana, Nelson Charles A.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible