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Neural Plasticity

The Effects of Environment on the Development of the Cerebral Cortex
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Neural Plasticity by Peter R. Huttenlocher delves into the fascinating world of the brain's ability to change and adapt over time. This book explores how neural connections strengthen and modify in response to experiences, underscoring the dynamic nature of the brain. It combines insights from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy to offer a comprehensive understanding of how our mental processes and behaviours are shaped by flexible neural pathways.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by neuroscience and how the brain adapts and changes throughout life. The exploration of neural plasticity is ideal for readers interested in understanding the intricate connections between brain development and behaviour, offering insights into both psychology and philosophy.

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Neural plasticity--the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental processes, experience, and injury--is a critically important phenomenon for both neuroscience and psychology. This book is a unique contribution to research and to the literature on clinical neuroscience.

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Neural Plasticity—the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental processes, experience, and injury—is a critically important phenomenon for both neuroscience and psychology. Increasing evidence about the extent of plasticity—long past the supposedly critical first three years—has recently emerged.

Neural Plasticity offers the first succinct and lucid integration of this research and its implications. Pointing out the negative and the positive consequences of plasticity, Peter Huttenlocher describes plasticity in children and adults (in normal ageing and in response to trauma), in sensory systems, the motor cortex, higher cortical functions, and language development, proceeding system by system, and paying particular attention to the cerebral cortex.

One of the book's strengths is its range of references, not only to studies on human subjects but to the experimental study of animal models as well. This book will be a unique contribution to research and to the literature on clinical neuroscience.

Series: Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience

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  • Neural Plasticity
    Neural Plasticity—the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental processes, experience, and injury—is a critically important phenomenon for both neuroscience and psychology. Increasing evidence about the extent of plasticity—long past the supposedly critical first three years—has recently emerged. Neural Plasticity offers the first succinct and lucid integration of this research and its implications. Pointing out the negative and...
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ISBN: 9780674007437

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 July 2002

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: 5 halftones; 22 line illustrations, 11 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 567g

Pages: 286

About the Author

Peter R. Huttenlocher was Professor Emeritus and former Chief of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

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