Human behavior, learning, and the developing brain.
By: edited by Donna Coch, Kurt W. Fischer, Geraldine Dawson.
Contributors: Coch, Donna.; Fischer, Kurt W.; Dawson, Geraldine.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781593851361
Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience; Behavior -- physiology; Adolescent; Brain -- growth & development; Child; Infant; Learning -- physiology; Psychophysiology
Other titles: Typical development
Description: "This state-of-the-science volume examines the relationships between brain development and behavior in typically developing children. The contributors are leading authorities who integrate theories and methods from multiple disciplines, emphasizing what research reveals about ways to support all children's learning and healthy development." "This book is essential reading for a broad audience of developmental and cognitive neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, developmental and clinical psychologists, educators, and psychiatrists. It will serve as a highly informative text in graduate-level courses."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The role of neuroscience in historical and contemporary theories of human development / Sidney J. Segalowitz; title: Some ways in which neuroscientific research can be relevant to education / James P. Byrnes; title: The structural development of the human brain as measured longitudinally with magnetic resonance imaging / Rhoshel K. Lenroot & Jay N. Giedd; title: Dynamic development of hemispheric biases in three cases : cognitive/hemispheric cycles, music and hemispherectomy / Mary Helen Immordino-Yang & Kurt W. Fischer; title: The social brain in infancy : a developmental cognitive neuroscience approach / Mark H. Johnson; title: Recognition memory : brain-behavior relations from 0 to 3 / Sara Jane Webb; title: Experience and developmental changes in the organization of language-relevant brain activity / Debra L. Mills & Elizabeth A. Sheehan; title: Temperament and biology / Jerome Kagan & Nancy Snidman; title: Frontal lobe development during infancy and childhood : contributions of brain electrical activity, temperament, and language to individual differences in working memory and inhibitory control / Martha Ann Bell, Christy D. Wolfe, & Denise R. Adkins; title: Brain bases of learning and development of language and reading / James R. Booth; title: Development of verbal working memory / Gal Ben-Yehudah & Julie A. Fiez; title: Emotion processing and the developing brain / Alison D. Wismer Fries & Seth D. Pollak; title: Brain development and adolescent behavior / Linda Patia Spear.