Cortical Areas: Protomap or Protocortex? -- Cortical Plasticity -- Differential Development of Human Cortex -- Postnatal Brain Development: Adolescence -- Postnatal Brain Development: The Hippocampus and Subcortical Structures -- Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators-- What Makes a Brain Human? -- 5. Vision, Orienting, and Attention -- The Development of Vision -- The Development of Visual Orienting-- Saccade Planning-- Visual Attention -- 6. Perceiving and Acting in a World of Objects -- The Dorsal and Ventral Visual Pathways-- Hidden Objects -- Neural Oscillations and Object Processing -- 7. Perceiving and Acting in the Social World -- The Social Brain-- Face Recognition -- Filial Imprinting in Chicks -- Brain Development and Face Recognition-- Perceiving and Acting on the Eyes -- Understanding and Predicting the Behavior of Others -- The Atypical Social Brain -- 8. Learning and Long-Term Memory-- Development of Explicit Memory -- Implicit Memory -- 9. Language—Introduction -- Are Some Parts of Cortex Critical for Language Acquisition? -- Neural Basis of Speech Processing in Infants -- Influence of Experience on Brain Language Processing -- Neural Correlates of Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition -- 10. Prefrontal Cortex, Working Memory, and Decision-Making -- Introduction-- Prefrontal Cortex, Object Permanence, and Working Memory -- Prefrontal Cortex, Social Decision-Making, and Adolescence -- Prefrontal Cortex, Skill Learning, and Interactive Specialization -- 11. Cerebral Lateralization -- General Summary and Conclusions -- 12. Educational Neuroscience – Numeracy -- Literacy-- 13. Interactive Specialization-- Three Viewpoints on Human Functional Brain Development-- Interactive Specialization-- Selective Pruning -- Parcellation and Emergent Modularity -- Emerging Networks-- 14. Toward an Integrated Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience-- Genes and Cognitive Development-- Relations Between Brain Structure and Function in Development – Neuroconstructivism -- Criticisms of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience -- Applications of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. |