Mark H. Johnson & Yuko Munakata 
Brain Development and Cognition 
A Reader

The first edition of this successful reader brought together key readings in the area of developmental cognitive neuroscience for students. Now updated in order to keep up with this fast moving field, the volume includes new readings illustrating recent developments along with updated versions of previous contributions.

Table of Content

Contributors.

Preface..

Part I: Perspectives on Development.

Introduction.

1. Critique of the Modern Ethologists Attitude (Konard
Lorenz).

2. The Problem of Change (Susan Oyama).

3. The Epigenetic System and the Development of Cognitive
Functions (Jean Piaget).

4. From Gene to Organism: The Developing Individual as an
Emergent, Interactional, Hierachical System (G.
Gottlieb).

Part II: Brain Maturation.

Introduction.

5. General Principles of CNS Development (R .S. Nowakowski and
N.L. Hayes).

6. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Neocortial
Parcellation: A Radical Unit Model (P. Rakic).

7. Positron Emission Tomography Study of Human Brain Functional
Development (Harry T. Chugani, Michael E. Phelps and John C.
Mazziotta).

8. Morphometric Study of Human Cerebral Cortex Developemt (Peter
R. Huttenlocher).

Part III: Brain Maturation and Cognition.

Introduction.

9. The Development of Visual Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience
Perspective (Mark H. Johnson).

10. The Ontogeny of Human Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience
Perspective (C.A. Nelson).

Part IV: Brain Plasticity.

Introduction.

11. Experience and Brain Development (William T. Greenough,
James E. Black and Christopher S. Wallace).

12. Do Cortical Areas Emerge from a Protocortex? (Dennis D. M.
O’Leary).

13. Emergence of Order in Visual System Development (C.J.
Shatz).

Part V: Brain Plasticity and Cognition.

Introduction.

14. Specificity and plasticity in Neurocognitive Development in
Humans (H. Neville and D. Bavelier).

15. Linguistic, Cognitive, and Affective Development in Children
with Pre- and Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: A Ten-Year Overview
from the San Diego Longitudinal Project (Joan Stiles, Elizabeth A.
Bates, Donna Thal, Doris A. Trauner, and Judy Reilly).

16. Cortical Plasticity Underlying Perceptual, Motor, and
Cognitive Skill Development: Implications for Neurorehabilitation
(Michael M. Merzenich, Beverly A. Wright, William Jenkins,
Christina Xerri, Nancy Byl, Steve. Miller and Paula. Tallal).

17. The Instinct to Learn (Peter Marler).

Part VI: Self Organization and Development.

Introduction.

18. Self-Organization in Developmental Processes: Can system
Approaches Work? (Esther Thelen).

19. Development Itself is the Key to Understanding Developmental
Disorders. Annette Karmiloff-Smith).

20. Object Recognition and Sensitive Periods: A Computational
Analysis of Visual Imprinting (Randall C. O’Reilly and Mark
H. Johnson).

Part VII: New Directions.

Introduction.

21. Connectionism and the Study of Change: Elizabeth Bates and
Jeffrey L. Elman).

22. A Model System for Studying the Role of Dopamine in
Prefrontal Cortex During Early Development in Humans (Adele
Diamond).

23. Genes and Brain: Individual Differences and Human
Universals: Bruce F. Pennington).

Name Index.

Subject Index.

About the author

Mark H. Johnson is Director of the Centre for Brain and
Cognitive Development at Birkbeck College, University of London,
and an MRC Senior Research Scientist. He has published over one
hundred scholarly articles and four books on brain and cognitive
development, including Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: An
Introduction (1997). He is also on the editorial board of
several developmental journals and book series.

Yuko Munakata is currently an Assistant Professor in
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Denver.
Her interests include memory development, dissociations in behavior
during development and following brain damage, and neural network
models of cognitive development.

Rick O. Gilmore is Assistant Professor of Psychology at
Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the
development of spatial perception and memory in infancy and their
relationship to brain development.