Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: An Introduction

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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 4th Edition is a revised and updated edition of the landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy childhood and adolescence. Offers a comprehensive introduction to all issues relating to the nature of brain-behaviour relationships and development New or greatly expanded coverage of topics such as epigenetics and gene expression cell migration and stem cells sleep and learning/memory socioeconomic status and development of prefrontal cortex function Includes a new chapter on educational neuroscience featuring the latest findings on the application of cognitive neuroscience methods in school-age educational contexts Includes a variety of student-friendly features such as chapter-end discussion practical applications of basic research and material on recent technological breakthroughs