During the first eighteen months of life, infants acquire and refine a whole set of new motor
skills that significantly change the ways in which the body moves in and interacts with the …

▪ Abstract Human speech and birdsong have numerous parallels. Both humans and
songbirds learn their complex vocalizations early in life, exhibiting a strong dependence on …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive
overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication. Authored by …

Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget.
Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

The DIVA model of speech production provides a computationally and neuroanatomically
explicit account of the network of brain regions involved in speech acquisition and …

We have argued that dynamically defined articulatory gestures are the appropriate units to
serve as the atoms of phonological representation. Gestures are a natural unit, not only …

The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but
applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …

With the discovery of conditioned reflexes by IP Pavlov, the possibilities for experimenting,
following the example set by the classical, exact sciences, were made available to the …