Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience by Johnson, Mark H.;

Short description:

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the classic introductory text that christened the rapidly expanding field of developmental cognitive neuroscience.

Lecturer support can be found at www. blackwellpublishing. com/dcn

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Long description:

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the classic introductory text that christened the rapidly expanding field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. Changes include:



a four-colour plate section of brain scans and images;
a new chapter on objects and number;
updates to the chapter on building a brain, to cover activity-dependent neural development, changes in adolescence, and more;
new emphasis on developmental disorders;
extensive revisions to the chapter on integrating developmental cognitive neuroscience to focus on a new framework for understanding human functional brain development interactive specialization ;
pointers to further reading are provided throughout the text


This book is also supported by an accompanying website featuring password protected exam questions, downloadable figures and tables and links to related books and information sites - including Mark Johnson's lab website. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/dcn for more details.

This long-awaited second edition of the classic introductory text that gave the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience its name, this book will continue to be the definitive introduction to the subject. The text reviews the current state of knowledge in the field in the context of an integrative theoretical framework within which the plasticity and maturation of the brain are analysed.


The second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, changes include:


A four-colour plate section of brain scans and images.
A new chapter on objects and number.
An updated chapter on building a brain , to cover activity-dependent neural development, changes in adolescence, and more.
A new emphasis on different developmental disorders.
A completely revised chapter on the emerging social brain, placing more emphasis on aspects of social cognition other than basic face processing.
An extensively revised chapter on integrating developmental cognitive neuroscience, focusing on a new framework for understanding human functional brain development interactive specialization .


This book is also supported by an accompanying website featuring password protected exam questions, downloadable figures and tables and links to related books and information sites - including Mark Johnson's lab website. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/dcn for more details.

"Johnson's excellent book provides the perspective to appreciate the hidden brain mechanisms that lie behind the infant's amazing development of perception, attention and language."


Michael Posner, Prof Emeritus, University of Oregon <!--end-->

"This text will appeal to professionals and students alike. The progression of ideas in the area is carefully and clearly laid out and the research details are explained in an accessible manner. Overall this book is clearly structured, instructive and comprehensive in the presentation of a range of research methods and findings, and gives the reader a positive and encouraging view of the future of this field and the potential of developmental cognitive neuroscience for addressing fundamental questions of human development."
Applied Cognitive Psychology

"The influence of the developmental cognitive neuroscience approach to understanding the mind and brain is still young and evolving but it is now established in both developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In his new revised text, Johnson continues to survey the growing field of developmental cognitive neuroscience and provide the student with an accessible overview of the main areas benefitting from the neuroscientific perspective. Of course, the direct link between brain and mind will always be elusive, but with Johnson's new text, students can appreciate how researchers constrain their theories with neuroscientific plausibility."
Prof Bruce Hood, Bristol Cognitive Development Centre & Chair of Developmental Psychology, University of Bristol

"Developmental cognitive neuroscience is an exciting and rapidly advancing research area. Mark Johnson's book explores the latest discoveries in this domain and is an essential tool to fully understand a discipline which is on the edge of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and neuro-computation. The author does an amazing job of explaining the concepts and methods in cognitive neuroscience and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of brain development."
Dr Olivier Pascalis, Course Organiser, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sheffield

"Mark Johnson's second edition remains undoubtedly the most comprehensive reference text for students and beginning or advanced researchers, in the rapidly growing field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. As the field is producing more and more informative data, this book does an excellent job of synthesizing the new research and providing a solid theoretical framework for examining new evidence and developing new theories on cognitive and brain development. One of the most forward looking contributions is Johnson's framing of the interactive specialization issue, a fundamentally innovative direction to further understand how social, cognitive, and neural components together shape human development."
Dr Alessandra Passarotti, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Michigan State University

Table of Contents:

Preface.

1. The Biology of Change.

2. Building a Brain.

3. Vision, Orienting and Attention.

4. Perceiving and Acting on the Physical World: Objects and Number.

5. Perceiving and Acting on the Social World.

6. Memory and Learning.

7. Language.

8. Frontal Cortex, Object Permanence, and Planning.

9. Cerebral Lateralization.

10. Interactive Specialization.

11. Toward an Integrated Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Index