The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience is a seminal reference work in the burgeoning field of developmental behavioral neuroscience, which has emerged in recent years as an important sister discipline to developmental psychobiology. This handbook, part of the Oxford Library of Neuroscience, provides an introduction to recent advances in research at the intersection of developmental science and behavioral neuroscience, while emphasizing the central research perspectives of developmental psychobiology. Contributors to the Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience are drawn from a variety of fields, including developmental psychobiology, neuroscience, comparative psychology, and evolutionary biology, demonstrating the opportunities to advance our understanding of behavioral and neural development through enhanced interactions among parallel disciplines. In a field ripe for collaboration and integration, the Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience provides an unprecedented overview of conceptual and methodological issues pertaining to comparative and developmental neuroscience that can serve as a roadmap for researchers and a textbook for educators. Its broad reach will spur new insights and compel new collaborations in this rapidly growing field.
Author(s): Mark Blumberg, John Freeman, Scott Robinson
Edition: 1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 784
Contents......Page 6
About the Editors......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction: A New Frontier for Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience......Page 16
Part One: Comparative and Epigenetic Perspectives......Page 20
1. The Value of Truly Comparative and Holistic Approaches in the Neurosciences......Page 22
2. Developmental Systems Theory......Page 27
3. Rethinking Epigenesis and Evolution in Light of Developmental Science......Page 45
Part Two: Foundations of Neural Development......Page 64
4. Brain Development: Genes, Epigenetic Events, and Maternal Environments......Page 66
5. Programmed Cell Death During Nervous System Development: Mechanisms, Regulation, Functions, and Implications for Neurobehavioral Ontogeny......Page 91
6. Development of GABAergic Signaling: From Molecules to Emerging Networks......Page 123
7. Neural Activity and Visual System Development......Page 155
8. Early Patterns of Electrical Activity in the Developing Cortex......Page 176
Part Three: Sensorimotor Systems......Page 194
9. Experience in the Perinatal Development of Action Systems......Page 196
10. Development of Spinal Cord Locomotor Networks Controlling......Page 225
11. Development of Spinal Motor Networks Controlling Axial Movements......Page 255
12. Role of Spontaneous Movements in Imprinting an Action-based Body Representation in the Spinal Cord......Page 269
13. Development of Sound Localization Mechanisms......Page 277
Part Four: Early Experience and Developmental Plasticity......Page 298
14. Early Sensory Experience, Behavior, and Gene Expression in Caenorhabditis elegans......Page 300
15. Development of Central Visceral Circuits......Page 313
16. Maternal Care as a Modulating Influence on Infant Development......Page 338
17. Mechanisms of Plasticity in the Development of Cortical Somatosensory Maps......Page 357
18. Cross-Modal Plasticity in the Mammalian Neocortex......Page 372
19. Factors Influencing Neocortical Development in the Normal and Injured Brain......Page 390
Part Five: Regulatory Systems......Page 404
20. The Form and Function of Infant Sleep: From Muscle to Neocortex......Page 406
21. Perinatal Gonadal Hormone Influences on Neurobehavioral Development......Page 439
22. Development of Ingestive Behavior: The Influence of Context and Experience on Sensory Signals Modulating Intake......Page 469
23. Multilevel Development: The Ontogeny of Individual and Group Behavior......Page 490
Part Six: Learning and Memory......Page 514
24. Ontogeny of Multiple Memory Systems: Eyeblink Conditioning in Rodents and Humans......Page 516
25. Ontogeny of Fear Conditioning......Page 542
26. Developmental Neurobiology of Cerebellar Learning......Page 561
27. Developmental Neurobiology of Olfactory Preference and Avoidance Learning......Page 588
28. Development of the Hippocampal Memory System: Creating Networks and Modifiable Synapses......Page 602
29. Development of Medial Temporal Lobe Memory Processes in Nonhuman Primates......Page 622
30. Episodic Memory: Comparative and Developmental Issues......Page 632
Part Seven: Communication......Page 652
31. Hormones and the Development of Communication-Related Social Behavior in Birds......Page 654
32. Development of Antipredator Behavior......Page 682
33. Comparative Perspectives on the Missing Link: Communicative Pragmatics......Page 699
34. From Birds to Words: Perception of Structure in Social Interactions Guides Vocal Development and Language Learning......Page 723
35. Relaxed Selection and the Role of Epigenesis in the Evolution of Language......Page 745
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