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Cognitive neuroscience

Johnson, Mark H. (2008) Cognitive neuroscience. In: Haith, M.M. and Jenson, J.B. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development. San Diego, USA: Academic Press, pp. 309-318. ISBN 9780123708779.

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Abstract

Recently, cognitive neuroscience methods have been applied to some of the major issues in infant and child development. Three perspectives on human postnatal functional brain development are presented, and their application to three domains reviewed: the developing social brain, speech and language development, and prefrontal cortex functions. In all domains, evidence is consistent with an ‘interactive specialization’ view on development in which cortical regions become increasingly specifically tuned for computational functions as a result of postnatal experience.

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Item Type: Book Section
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): brain, cortex, ERP, faces, infants, language, MRI, NIRS, prefrontal cortex, speech, synapses
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
Research Centres and Institutes: Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD)
Depositing User: Sarah Hall
Date Deposited: 28 Jul 2015 10:25
Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:17
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12574

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