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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
©2002.
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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