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Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development
Attention and Performance XXI

Edited by Yuko Munakata and Mark Johnson

Price: £83.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856874-2
Publication date: 6 April 2006
688 pages, 83 figures, 18 photos, 4 color plates, 240x168 mm
 Series: Attention and Performance Series number XXI
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  • A new volume in the critically acclaimed Attention and Performance series, examining the mechanisms underlying cognitive development
  • Presents groundbreaking research from leading scientists in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, providing an authoritative overview of the burgeoning field of developmental cognitive neuroscience
In recent years there has been a shift within developmental psychology away from examining the cognitive systems at different ages, to trying to understand exactly what are the mechanisms that generate change. What kind of learning mechanisms and representational changes drive cognitive development? How can the imaging techniques available help us to understand these mechanisms?

This new volume in the highy cited and critically acclaimed Attention and Performance series is the first to provide a systematic investigation into the processes of change in mental development. It brings together world class scientists to address brain and cognitive development at several different levels, including phylogeny, genetics, neurophysiology, brain imaging, behavior, and computational modeling, across both typically and atypically developing populations. Presenting original new research from the frontiers of cognitive neuroscience, this book will have a substantial impact in this field, as well as on developmental psychology and developmental neuroscience.

Readership: Cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists. Developmental psychologists

Contents
1. Contrasting domains in the control of action: the routine and the non-routine , Tim Shallice
I - Learning Mechanisms
2. How far can you go with Hebbian learning, and when does it lead you astray? , James L McClelland
3. Constructive learning in the modelling of psychological development , Thomas R Shultz
4. Dynamically guided learning , Rebecca L Gomez
5. Core mechanisms of word learning , Lori Markson
II - Constraints on Learning
6. Developmental constraints on or developmental structure in brain evolution? , Barbara Finlay, Desmond Cheung & Richard B Darlington
7. Under what conditions do infants detect continuity violations? , Renee Baillargeon, Jie Li, Yuyan Luo & Su-hua Wang
8. The emergence of cognitive specialization in infancy:the case of face preference , Francesca Simion, Chiara Turati, Eloisa Valneza & Irene Leo
9. Age-related changes in infant memory retrieval: implication for knowledge acquisition , Harlene Hayne
10. Learning how to be flexible with words , Kim Plunkett
11. Social learning and social cognition: the case for pedagogy , Gergely Csibra & Gyorgy Gergely
12. Commentary: Constraints on the acquisition of specialization for face processing , Isabel Gauthier
III - Representational Change
13. Different profiles of plasticity within human cognition , Helen J Neville
14. Atypical representational change: conditions for the emergence of atypical modularity , Michael S C Thomas & Fiona M Richardson
15. A brand new ball game: Bayes net and neural net learning mechanisms in young children , Alison Gopnik & Clark Glymour
IV - Representational Integration and Dissociation
16. Modelling integration and dissociation in brain and cognitive development , Randall O'Reilly
17. Enhanced red/green color input to motion processing in infancy: evidence for increasing dissociation of color and motion and information during development , Karen Dobkins
18. When do 4-month olds remember the 'what' and 'where' of hidden objects? , Denis Mareschal & Andrew J Bremner
19. The infant as synaesthete? , Daphne Maurer & Catherine J Mondloch
20. The development of human conceptual representations: a case study , Susan Carey & Barbara W Sarnecka
V - What Have We Learned (Or Can We Learn) From Cognitive Neuroscience About Developmental Change?
21. Species comparisons in development: the case of the geometric 'module' , Lynn Nadel & Almut Hupbach
22. Learning about learning and development with modern imaging technology , B J Casey, Dima Amso & Matthew C Davidson
23. Spatial cognitive development following early focal brain injury: evidence for adaptive change in brain and cognition , Joan Stiles, Brianna Paul & John Hesselink
24. Modules, genes and evolution: what have we learned from atypical development? , Annette Karmiloff-Smith
25. Connectionist models in developmental cognitive neuroscience: critical periods and the paradox of success , Mark S Seidenberg & Jason D Zevin
26. Processes of change in brain and cognitive development: the final word , Richard N Aslin

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Yuko Munakata, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder and
Mark Johnson, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London


Links to web resources and related information
International Society for the Study of Attention and Performance
Click here to visit Yuko Munakata's homepage
Click here to visit Mark Johnson's Homepage


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