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Neural plasticity : the effects of environment on the development of the cerebral cortex /

Annotation Neural plasticity--the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental processes, experience, and injury--is a critically important phenomenon for both neuroscience and psychology. Increasing evidence about the extent of plasticity--long past the supposedly critical fir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huttenlocher, Peter R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, ©2002.
Colección:Perspectives in cognitive neuroscience.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Neuroanatomical Substrates: Early Developmental Events
  • 2. Synaptogenesis
  • 3. Methods for the Study of Functional Plasticity
  • 4. Plasticity in Sensory Systems
  • 5. Plasticity in the Motor Cortex
  • 6. Plasticity in the Development of Language
  • 7. Plasticity in Elective Brain Functions
  • 8. Adult Plasticity
  • 9. Summing Up
  • 10. The Practical Relevance of the Findings from Developmental Neurobiology
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index