Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience brings together the leading developmental cognitive neuroscientists in the field that work on understanding human development, and the complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and brain maturational factors that shape social and cognitive functioning in development. It includes chapters on new, emerging research areas that show promise for understanding both brain and behaviour in development, such as nutrition and the microbiome gut-brain axis and sleep. Looking beyond early developmental changes, this handbook also places importance on the period of adolescence, which is an important developmental juncture.

By assuming complexity from the outset, the developmental cognitive neuroscience research approach provides much needed insights into both the initial set-up of brain networks and cognitive mechanisms, and also into adaptability across the developmental trajectory. This is important not only for scientists studying typical and atypical development, but also for interventional work looking for critical or sensitive periods where interventions would be most effective. The developmental cognitive neuroscience research approach intersects nature and nurture and considers both health and disease models. It also focuses on understanding the complexity of human development, necessitating a multi-level and multi-factor research approach to grasp change and plasticity which, by definition, is multidisciplinary.

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is a landmark volume, providing the reader with a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of current research in the field, whilst highlighting current gaps and directions for future research.

• Provides an introduction to current dominant methodologies for the areas of developmental psychology and education
• Offers a comprehensive overview of the current research in developmental cognitive neuroscience
• Highlights current gaps and directions for future research

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1:Introduction to Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: current state-of-the art and new frontiers
2:The Neural Reuse Hypothesis
3:Electrophysiology in developmental populations: Key methods and findings
4:Longitudinal structural and functional brain development in childhood and adolescence
5:Diffusion imaging perspectives on brain development in childhood and adolescence
6:Magnetoencephalography and developmental cognitive neuroscience
7:Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)
8:Behavioural testing and eye-tracking technology
9:Recognizing Facial Identity: Prolonged Development During Infancy and Childhood
10:Preverbal Categorization and its Neural Correlates: Methods and Findings
11:Motor Development in Infants and Children
12:Developmental Coordination Disorder
13:Sleep development in infancy and childhood
14:Development of the microbiome-gut-brain axis and its effect on behaviour
15:The Role of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Neurodevelopment and Mental Health in Childhood and Adolescence
16:Attention in infancy and childhood
17:The effects of socioeconomic adversity on the development of brain systems for attention and self-regulation
18:The role of attention in the development of creativity
19:Training cognition with video games
20:Attention biases in children and adolescents
21:Memory Development
22:Language development in infancy
23:Neural basis of speech and language impairments in development: The case of developmental language disorder
24:Multi-language acquisition and cognitive development
25:Numerical and mathematical abilities in children: behavioral and neural correlates
26:Cognitive neuroscience of dyscalculia and math learning disabilities
27:Cognitive Neuroscience of Developmental Dyslexia
28:Neurocognitive underpinnings of social development during childhood
29:Puberty and social brain development
30:Neurocognitive Developmental Changes in Trust and Reciprocity Across Adolescence
31:Neurobiological susceptibility to peer influence in adolescence
32:Early cognitive and brain development in infants and children with ASD
33:Social cognitive and interactive abilities in autism
34:Affective disorders in development
35:Depression in young people: cognitive biases and targets for intervention
36:Sleep, anxiety and depression in adolescence: A developmental cognitive neuroscience approach
37:Borderline personality disorder in development
38:Psychotic experiences, cognition, and neurodevelopment
39:Brain development in deaf children or children of deaf parents