شناخت و توسعه مغز: شواهد همگرا از روش‌های مختلف (سری توسعه مغز انسان)

Research in brain cognition and development has expanded rapidly over the last ten years. Our scientific understanding of the developmental stages of infancy, childhood, and adolescence has reached a new level of sophistication, thanks to extensive studies on cognitive processes such as attention, inhibition, executive control, working memory, language, spatial cognition, lexical access, and emotional processing. In this book, an elite group of international contributors presents the latest advances in the science of cognitive development. The authors work at some of the world's most prestigious labs across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia and their diverse linguistic backgrounds permit especially interesting work on language and cognition. They explore such issues as: the role of dopamine in ADHD; the development of self-consciousness and ethics; the use of functional MRI in epilepsy patients; the crucial role of culture in the development of language New, converging methodologies derived from behavioral experimentation, electrophysiology, eye tracking, genetics, and neuroimaging studies characterize this research. Together, the chapters demonstrate a truly international and holistic approach to understanding human cognition and brain development. "The essence of development is change. To observe a newborn develop into a toddler, child, and adolescent, and to try to account for the mechanisms of the developing brain and cognition that underlie these changes, are intellectually stimulating as well as emotionally satisfying. The field of cognitive development helps us understand how we learn to think, perceive, reason, talk, learn, and remember. This book conveys the insights gained from recent empirical research in the field of cognitive development and presents a cumulative account of different aspects of the developing brain and cognition. The highlight of the volume is the bringing together of various topics in cognitive development, methodology, developmental stages, and most important, research findings on various populations from both East and West. This volume is a collection of chapters based on the proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Development held in December 2010 at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. Its compilation was an excellent opportunity to put together recent research in developmental cognitive neuroscience with empirical findings based on various methodologies, including behavioral reaction time, imaging, observation, and genetics studies. The findings presented here depict how the interaction between biology and environment produces cognitive development. The diverse methodological approaches taken by these experts in their respective areas will benefit researchers and professionals working with children and students of cognitive psychology and cognitive science"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) In this book, an elite group of international contributors presents the latest advances in the science of cognitive development. The authors work at prestigious labs across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, and their diverse linguistic backgrounds permit especially interesting work on language and cognition. They explore such topics as the role of dopamine in ADHD, the development of self-consciousness and ethics, the use of functional MRI in epilepsy patients, and the crucial role of culture in the development of language. New, converging methodologies derived from behavioral experimentation, electrophysiology, eye tracking, genetics, and neuroimaging studies characterize this research. Together, the chapters demonstrate a truly international and holistic approach to understanding human cognition and brain development.