Anne Petersen

Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development

Comparative and Cross-cultural Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume adopts a unique, multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development of the human brain and early behavior

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780202363950
• ISBN-10: 0202363953
• Artikelnr.: 31794898

Autorenporträt

Anne Petersen

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction
Introduction
2: Basic Neuroanatomy for the Nonspecialist
II: Principles and Regularities of Neural Development
Myelination and Behavioral Development: A Comparative Perspective on Questions of Neoteny, Altnciality and Intelligence
Brain, Behavior, and Developmental Genetics
5: Nutritional and Environmental Interactions in Brain Development
6: Environmental Influences on the Young Brain
III: Primate and Human Behavioral Development from a Biosocial Perspective
7: Frontal Lobe Involvement in Cognitive Changes During the First Year of Life
8: Universais of Behavioral Development in Relation to Brain Myelination
Developmental Transitions of Cognitive Functioning in Rural Kenya and Metropolitan America
10: Cognitive Changes at Adolescence: Biological Perspectives
11: Assessment of Brain Functioning in Individuals at Biosocial Risk: Examples from Alcoholic Families
IV: Biosocial Sciences and the Neurology of Language
12: Levels of Structure in a Communication System Developed without a Language Model
Some Structural and Developmental Correlates of Human Speech
Neurobiology of Cognitive and Language Processing: Effects of Early Experience