Neuroconstructivism - I
How the brain constructs cognition
Series: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience;
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Product details:
- Edition number and title How the Brain Constructs Cognition v. 1
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 January 2007
- ISBN 9780198529903
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 240x160x19 mm
- Weight 601 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? Neuroconstructivism is a pioneering 2 volume work that sets out a whole new framework for considering the complex topic of development, integrating data from cognitive studies, computational work, and neuroimaging.
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What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the way are so complex that any attempt to understand development necessitates a multi-disciplinary approach, integrating data from cognitive studies, computational work, and neuroimaging - an approach till now seldom taken in the study of child development.
Neuroconstructivism is a major new 2 volume publication that seeks to redress this balance, presenting an integrative new framework for considering development. In the first volume, the authors review up-to-to date findings from neurobiology, brain imaging, child development, computer and robotic modelling to consider why children's thinking develops the way it does. They propose a new synthesis of development that is based on 5 key principles found to operate at many levels of descriptions. They use these principles to explain what causes a number of key developmental phenomena, including infants' interacting with objects, early social cognitive interactions, and the causes of dyslexia. The "neuroconstructivist" framework also shows how developmental disorders do not arise from selective damage to the normal cognitive system, but instead arise from atypical constraints. How these principles work is illustrated in several case studies ranging from perceptual to social and reading development. Finally, the authors use neuroimaging, behavioural analyses, computational simulations and robotic models to provide a way of understanding the mechanisms and processes that cause development to occur.
Table of Contents:
Part I - Foundations
Introduction
Encellment: the emerging function and morphology of neurons
Embrainment: the brain unboxed
Embodiment: representations in context
Principles, mechanisms, and processes
Part II - Case Studies
The cortical basis of early visual perception ... a story of multiple representations
Habituation in infancy ... from interacting neural systems to active exploration
Phonological development ... the integration of sensory motor representations
Infants and objects ... from functional brain systems to behavior
Ensocialment ... minds and brains in society
Lessons from atypical development
Dyslexia: a case study of the application of the neuroconstructivist principles
Part III - Conclusions
Conclusions and challenges for the future
