Cognition and Neural Development

by Don M. Tucker

Scientific research shows how experience shapes the organization of the human brain through mechanisms of neural plasticity, which capture the information of the world within the connections among neurons. To understand this plasticity, it is important to look to the developmental mechanisms through which the brain grows from a single cell in embryogenesis to achieve the complex architecture of the human brain. The process of neural morphogenesis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00A2KILMM
• ISBN13: 9780199838523
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"