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Title Mechanisms of cognitive development : behavioral and neural perspectives / edited by James L. McClelland, Robert S. Siegler
Published Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001

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Description xii, 421 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Series Carnegie Mellon symposia on cognition
Carnegie Mellon symposia on cognition.
Contents Pt. I. Studies of the Microgenesis of Cognitive Change -- 1. Giving the Mind a Hand: The Role of Gesture in Cognitive Change / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- 2. Children's Discoveries and Brain-Damaged Patients' Rediscoveries / Robert S. Siegler -- 3. Cortical Plasticity Contributing to Child Development / Michael M. Merzenich -- 4. Failure to Learn and Their Remediation: A Hebbian Account / James L. McClelland -- 5. PET Studies of Learning and Individual Differences / Richard J. Haier -- 6. Breakthroughs in Using Individual Differences to Study Learning: Comments on Goldin-Meadow, Haier, McClelland, Merzenich, and Siegler / James W. Stigler -- Pt. II. Studies of Change Over Longer Time Scales -- 7. Dynamic Mechanisms of Change in Early Perceptual-Motor Development / Esther Thelen -- 8. Differentiation, Integration, and Covariance Mapping as Fundamental Processes in Cognitive and Neurological Growth / Robbie Case and Michael P. Mueller -- 9. Why Development Does (and Does Not) Occur: Evidence From the Domain of Inductive Reasoning / Deanna Kuhn -- 10. Developing Cortical Specialization for Visual-Cognitive Function: The Case of Face Recognition / Mark H. Johnson and Michelle de Haan -- 11. Variability of Developmental Plasticity / Helen J. Neville and Daphne Bavelier -- 12. Time Matters in Cognitive Development / David Klahr -- Pt. III. Developmental Disorders -- 13. Neural Plasticity in Dyslexia: A Window to Mechanisms of Learning Disabilities / Albert M. Galaburda and Glenn D. Rosen -- 14. Disruption of Inhibitory Control in Developmental Disorders: A Mechanistic Model of Implicated Frontostriatal Circuity / B. J. Casey -- 15. Dynamic Cortical Systems Subserving Cognition: fMRI Studies With Typical and Atypical Individuals / Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just and Timothy Keller / [et al.] -- 16. Educating the Human Brain: A Commentary / Michael I. Posner
Notes Papers presented at the 29th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition Mechanisms of Cogniitive Development: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives, held at Carnegie Mellon University, October 9-11, 1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Cognition -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author McClelland, James L.
Siegler, Robert S.
Carnegie Symposium on Cognition (29th : 1998 : Carnegie Mellon University)
LC no. 00033163
ISBN 0805832750 cloth alkaline paper
0805832769 paperback alkaline paper