Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - An Introduction

Landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behavior during infancy, childhood, and adolescence
 
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience provides an accessible introduction to the main methods, theories, and empirical findings of developmental cognitive neuroscience. The focus is on human development from in utero to early adulthood, but key comparative work is also included. This new edition covers research in clinical/medical populations, educational applications and major advancements in methods and analysis, in particular with increasing longitudinal research focusing on understanding the mechanisms of cognitive development. It also contains a new chapter on global and cross-cultural perspectives outlining how developmental cognitive neuroscience has been applied in different settings and how techniques can be successfully adapted.
 
The text features a variety of student-friendly features such as chapter-end discussion, applications of basic research, and introductions to key experimental methods. An accompanying related resource website for students and educators that includes a test bank of multiple choice questions is also provided.
 
Other sample topics covered in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience include:
* Biology of change, methods, and populations, from gene to brain, building a brain, and vision, orienting, and attention
* Perceiving and acting in a world of objects, learning, and long-term memory, language, and prefrontal cortex, working memory, and decision-making
* Perceiving and acting in the social world, educational neuroscience, interactive specialization, and integrating development cognitive neuroscience
* Mid-childhood and adolescent development, social cognition and neuroimaging, and broader cognitive neuroscience approaches and theory
With expansive yet accessible coverage of the subject, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is an ideal resourcefor upper level undergraduate and early postgraduate readers. The text will further appeal to professionals in fields that have adopted developmental cognitive neuroscience approaches, such as education, clinical psychology, pediatric medicine and global health.

List of contents

List of Figures x
 
List of Tables xvii
 
List of Abbreviations xviii
 
Preface to the First Edition xx
 
Preface to the Fifth Edition xxii
 
About the Companion Website xxiii
 
1 The Biology of Change 1
 
Viewpoints on Development 1
 
Analyzing Development 5
 
Why Take a Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Development? 6
 
Why Take a Developmental Approach to Cognitive Neuroscience? 7
 
The Cause of Developmental Change 8
 
Three Viewpoints on Human Functional Brain Development 10
 
Interactive Specialization 11
 
Looking Forward 12
 
2 Methods and Populations 14
 
Introduction 14
 
Behavioral and Cognitive Tasks 15
 
Assessing Brain Function in Development 16
 
Observing Brain Structure in Development 18
 
Animal Studies and Genetics 19
 
Neurodiversity and Developmental Disorders 20
 
Atypically Developing Brains 22
 
Sensory and Environmental Variations 25
 
Familial Risk Populations 26
 
3 From Gene to Brain 28
 
The History of the Gene 28
 
Principles of Gene Function 29
 
Genetics and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 32
 
The Epigenome 36
 
The FOXP2 Gene 36
 
4 Building a Brain 39
 
An Overview of Primate Brain Anatomy 40
 
Prenatal Brain Development 43
 
Postnatal Brain Development 46
 
The Development of Cortical Areas: Protomap or Protocortex? 53
 
Differential Development of Human Cortex 61
 
Postnatal Brain Development: Adolescence 64
 
Postnatal Brain Development: The Hippocampus and Subcortical Structures 65
 
Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators 66
 
What Makes a Brain Human? 69
 
General Summary and Conclusions 70
 
5 Vision, Orienting, and Attention 71
 
The Development of Vision 71
 
The Development of Visual Orienting 76
 
Saccade Planning 86
 
Visual Attention 89
 
General Summary and Conclusions 95
 
6 Perceiving and Acting in a World of Objects 97
 
The Dorsal and Ventral Visual Pathways 98
 
Hidden Objects 101
 
Neural Oscillations and Object Processing 105
 
General Summary and Conclusions 106
 
7 Perceiving and Acting on the Social World 107
 
The Social Brain 107
 
Face Recognition 109
 
Brain Development and Face Recognition in Humans 113
 
Perceiving and Acting on the Eyes 120
 
Understanding and Predicting the Behavior of Others 123
 
The Atypical Social Brain 127
 
General Summary and Conclusions 131
 
8 Learning and Long- Term Memory 133
 
Development of Explicit Memory 135
 
Implicit Memory 143
 
General Summary and Conclusions 145
 
9 Language 147
 
Introduction 147
 
Are Some Parts of Cortex Critical for Language Acquisition? 149
 
Neural Basis of Speech Processing in Infants 155
 
Influence of Experience on Brain Language Processing 156
 
Neural Correlates of Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition 158
 
General Summary and Conclusions 161
 
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10 Prefrontal Cortex, Executive Functions, and Decision- Making 163
 
Introduction 164
 
Prefrontal Cortex and Object Permanence 164
 
Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Functions Development During Adolescence 166
 
Social Decision- Making and Self- Regulation During Adolescence 170
 
Prefrontal Cortex, Skill Learning, and Interactive Specialization 173
 
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About the author

MICHELLE de HAAN, PhD is Professor in Infant and Child Development at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK. She is Editor of Developmental Science, and an international figure in the field of clinical and developmental social and cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on the early years and electrophysiological and behavioural methods. IROISE DUMONTHEIL, PhD., is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on the typical development of the brain, cognition and behaviour during childhood and adolescence, in particular in the domains of social cognition and cognitive control, and on potential implications of neuroscience research for education. MARK H. JOHNSON, FBA, PhD., is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Professor at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London. A founding leader of developmental cognitive neuroscience, his research focuses on both the typical and atypical development of the brain, cognition and behaviour over the first three years postnatal.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle D H de Haan, Michelle D. H. de Haan, Michelle D. H. (University College Great De Haan, Iroise Dumontheil, Johnson, Mark H. Johnson, Johnson Mark H.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2023
• EAN: 9781119904694
• ISBN: 978-1-119-90469-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Entwicklungspsychologie, Psychologie, Kognitive Psychologie, Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Kognitive Neuropsychologie u. Neurowissenschaft, Cognitive Neuropsychology & Cognitive Neuroscience