There is a continuing debate in developmental neuroscience about the importance of activity-
dependent processes. The relatively delayed rate of development of the human brain …

To better understand the neurotoxic effects of diverse hazards on the developing human
nervous system, researchers and clinicians rely on data collected from a number of model …

The fact that people think or behave differently from one another is rooted in individual
differences in brain anatomy and connectivity. Here, we used repeated-measurement …

A general model of neural development is derived to fit 18 mammalian species, including
humans, macaques, several rodent species, and six metatherian (marsupial) mammals. The …

Conservation of the order in which events occur in developing mammalian brains permits
use of regression theory to model the timing of neural development. Following a small …

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 …

Resilience and adaptation in the face of early genetic or environmental risk has become a
major interest in child psychiatry over recent years. However, we still remain far from an …

How does evolution grow bigger brains? It has been widely assumed that growth of
individual structures and functional systems in response to niche-specific cognitive …

Most children master the basic structures of their native language by the age of four, together
with an array of cognitive and social accomplishments that appear to be necessary for …

Selective deficits in aphasic patients' grammatical production and comprehension are often
cited as evidence that syntactic processing is modular and localizable in discrete areas of …