Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Softcover

Johnson, Mark H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405126299 ISBN 13: 9781405126298

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

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

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• 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.

About this title

About the Author

Mark H. Johnson is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London and directs the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development. He is the editor of the Blackwell journal Developmental Science and is among the world’s leading scholars in infant brain development.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405126299
• ISBN 13: 9781405126298
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256