Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience An Introduction

List of Figures viii

List of Tables xi

Preface to the First Edition xii

Preface to the Fourth Edition xiv

Acknowledgements xv

Abbreviations xix

About the Companion Website xxi

1 The Biology of Change 1

2 Methods and Populations 17

3 From Gene to Brain 32

4 Building a Brain 43

5 Vision, Orienting, and Attention 83

6 Perceiving and Acting in a World of Objects 110

7 Perceiving and Acting in the Social World 121

8 Learning and Long-Term Memory 153

9 Language 166

10 Prefrontal Cortex, Working Memory, and Decision-Making 183

11 Cerebral Lateralization 197

12 Educational Neuroscience 205

13 Interactive Specialization 221

14 Toward an Integrated Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 240

References 251

Index 300