Table of Contents:
  • Perspectives on development. Critique in the modern ethologists' attitude / Konrad Lorenz
  • The problem of change / Susan Oyama
  • The epigenetic system and the development of cognitive functions / Jean Piaget
  • From gene to organism : the developing individual as an emergent, interactional, hierarchical system / Gilbert Gottlieb.
  • Brain maturation. General principles of CNS development / Richard S. Nowakowski, Nancy L. Hayes
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of neocortical parcellation : a radical unit model / Pasko Rakic
  • Positron emission tomography study of human brain functional development / Harry T. Chugani, Michael E. Phelps, John C. Mazziotta
  • Morphometric study of human cerebral cortex development / Peter R. Huttenlocher.
  • Brain maturation and cognition. The development of visual attention : a cognitive neuroscience perspective / Mark H. Johnson
  • The ontogeny of human memory : a cognitive neuroscience perspective / Charles A. Nelson.
  • Brain plasticity. Experience and brain development / William T. Greenough, James E. Black, Christopher S. Wallace
  • Do cortical areas emerge from a protocortex? / Dennis D.M. O'Leary
  • Emergence of order in visual system development / Carla J. Shatz.
  • Brain plasticity and cognition. Specificity and plasticity in neurocognitive development in humans / Helen J. Neville, Daphne Bavelier
  • Linguistic and spatial cognitive development in children with pre- and perinatal focal brain injury : a ten-year overview from the San Diego longitudinal project / Joan Stiles, ... [et al.]
  • Cortical plasticity underlying perceptual, motor and cognitive skill development : implications for neurorehabilitation / Michael M. Merzenich, ... [et al.]
  • The instinct to learn / Peter Marler.
  • Self-organization and development. Self-organization in developmental processes : can systems approaches work? / Esther Thelen
  • Development itself is the key to understanding developmental disorders / Annette Karmiloff-Smith
  • Object recognition and sensitive periods : a computational analysis of visual imprinting / Randall C. O'Reily, Mark H. Johnson.
  • New directions. Connectionism and the study of change / Elizabeth A. Bates, Jeffrey L. Elman
  • A model system for studying the role of dopamine in prefronatal cortex during early development in humans / Adele Diamond
  • Genes and brain : individual differences and human universals / Bruce F. Pennington.