This volume brings together leading authorities from multiple disciplines to examine the relationship between brain development and behavior in typically developing children. Presented are innovative cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that shed light on brainbehavior connections in infancy and toddlerhood through adolescence. Chapters explore the complex interplay of neurobiological and environmental influences in the development of memory, language, reading, inhibitory control, and other core aspects of cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. Throughout, the volume gives particular attention to what the research reveals about ways to support learning and healthy development in all children. Illustrations include four pages in full color.
I. History, Method, and Theory
1. The Role of Neuroscience in Historical and Contemporary Theories of Human DevelopmentSidney J. Segalowitz
2. Some Ways in Which Neuroscientific Research Can Be Relevant to EducationJames P. Byrnes
3. The Structural Development of the Human Brain as Measured Longitudinally with Magnetic Resonance ImagingRhoshel K. Lenroot andJay N. Giedd
4. Dynamic Development of Hemispheric Biases in Three Cases: Cognitive/Hemispheric Cycles, Music, and HemispherectomyMary Helen Immordino-Yang andKurt W. Fischer
II. The Developing Brain and Behavior in Infancy and Toddlerhood
5. The Social Brain in Infancy: A Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ApproachMark H. Johnson
6. Recognition Memory: Brain–Behavior Relations from 0 to 3Sara Jane Webb
7. Experience and Developmental Changes in the Organization of Language-Relevant Brain ActivityDebra L. Mills andElizabeth A. Sheehan
8. Temperament and BiologyJerome Kagan andNancy Snidman
9. Frontal Lobe Development during Infancy and Childhood: Contributions of Brain Electrical Activity, Temperament, and Language to Individual Differences in Working Memory and Inhibitory ControlMartha Ann Bell, Christy D. Wolfe, andDenise R. Adkins
III. The Developing Brain and Behavior in School-Age Children and Adolescents
10. Brain Bases of Learning and Development of Language and ReadingJames R. Booth
11. Development of Verbal Working MemoryGal Ben-Yehudah andJulie A. Fiez
12. Emotion Processing and the Developing BrainAlison B. Wismer Fries andSeth D. Pollak
13. Brain Development and Adolescent Behavior
Linda Patia Spear
