Why adult neuropsychological models don't work for neurodevelopmental syndromes
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2011) Why adult neuropsychological models don't work for neurodevelopmental syndromes. In: Kokinov, B. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Nerssessian, N.J. (eds.) European Perspectives on Cognitive Science. Sophia, Bulgaria: Bulgarian University Publications. ISBN 9789545356605.
Abstract
A cross-syndrome comparison between infants with Williams syndrome and those with Down syndrome seems to result in a neat cognitive double dissociation, like in adult neuropsychological patients. However, a more dynamic developmental analysis shows the data to be far more complex and the result of cascading cross-domain effects over ontogenetic time. The atypical brain of children with genetic disorders is not a normal brain with parts intact and parts impaired but a brain that develops differently throughout embryogenesis and ontogenesis. Thus, cognitive deficits may be due to multiple domain-relevant interacting factors early on that result in domain-specificity in the phenotypic outcome.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | adult neuropsychology, neurodevelopmental syndromes |
| School: | Birkbeck Schools and Departments > School of Science > Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centre: | Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD) |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2015 08:52 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2016 11:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12658 |
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