Brain maturation and cognitive development
Subtitle: comparative and cross-cultural perspectives
By: edited by Kathleen R. Gibson and Anne C. Petersen ; sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.
Contributors: Gibson, Kathleen Rita.; Petersen, Anne C.; Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
Series: Foundations of human behavior
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Cognition in children.; Brain -- Growth.; Pediatric neuropsychology.; Brain -- growth & development.; Cognition -- in infancy & childhood.
Description: This volume adopts a unique, multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development of the human brain and early behavior. Evolutionary, neurological, genetic, psychological, linguistic, and cross-cultural studies of brain-behavior interactions in human development are integrated for the first time within a biosocial framework. Contributors draw upon both classic anatomical and modern physiological and biochemical techniques to chart postnatal brain development as well as comparative primate and human brain and behavior maturation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.