UID:
edocfu_9959238340102883
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 403 pages) :
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illustrations (some color)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-772967-3
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1-280-76060-5
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9786610760602
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0-19-802845-8
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Placing an emphasis on cognitive function, this volume offers a broad review of the development of brain functions and the effects of early-life neurological diseases and injuries on them.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1999.
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Contents; Contributors; PART I: SHAPING THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; 1. Wiring the Brain: Activity-Dependent and Activity-Independent Development of Synaptic Circuits; 2. Effects of Differential Experience on Brain and Cognition Throughout the Life Span; 3. Experience and Plasticity in Brain Structure: Possible Implications of Basic Research Findings for Developmental Disorders; PART II: MECHANISMS OF REORGANIZATION; 4. Structural Changes Underlying Long-Term Memory; 5. Role of Intrinsic Circuitry in Motor Cortex Plasticity
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6. Immature Visual Cortex Lesions: Global Rewiring, Neural Adaptations, and Behavioral Sparing; PART III: NEURODEVELOPMENTAL COURSE OF EARLY BRAIN DISORDERS; 7. Role of the Corpus Callosum in the Cognitive Development of Children with Congenital Brain Malformations; 8. Functional Consequences of Congenital Cerebellar Dysmorphologies and Acquired Cerebellar Lesions of Childhood; 9. Recovery from Acquired Reading and Naming Deficits Following Focal Cerebral Lesions; 10. Plasticity, Localization, and Language Development; 11. Neuroplasticity: Evidence from Unilateral Brain Lesions in Children
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12. Continuity and Change in the Development of Children with Autism; 13. Biological and Behavioral Heterogeneity in Autism: Roles of Pleiotropy and Epigenesis; PART IV: INTERVENTIONS; 14. Issues in Developing Effective Interventions; 15. Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Listening Training and Language Abilities; PART V: CONCLUSIONS; 16. Development, Learning, and Neuroplasticity: Where We Are Now; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-512193-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195121933.001.0001
