Special Subject in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Readings

• Carey, Susan. “Some Preliminaries.” Chapter 1 in The Origins of Concepts . Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780199838806. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• Saxe, Rebecca R., and Kevin A. Pelphrey. “ Introduction to a Special Section of Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience .” Child Development 80, no. 4 (2009): 946–51. ↗
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• *Lee, Sang Ah, and Elizabeth S. Spelke. “ Two Systems of Spatial Representation Underlying Navigation .” Experimental Brain Research 206, no. 2 (2010): 179–88. · A. Innate geometric representations without experience · *Vallortigara, Giorgio, et al. “ Doing Socrates Experiment Right: Controlled Rearing Studies of Geometrical Knowledge in Animals .” Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19, no. 1 (2009): 20–6. ↗
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• Chiandetti, Cinzia, and Giorgio Vallortigara. “ Experience and Geometry: Controlled—rearing Studies with Chicks .” Animal Cognition 13, no. 3 (2010): 463–70. ↗
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• *Wills, Tom J., et al. “ Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats .” Science 328, no. 5985 (2010): 1572–6. ↗
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• Langston, Rosamund F., et al. “ Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat .” Science 328, no. 5985 (2010): 1576–80. ↗
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• *Iaria, Giuseppe, and Jason J. S. Barton. “ Developmental Topographical Disorientation: A Newly Discovered Cognitive Disorder .” Experimental Brain Research 206, no. 2 (2010): 189–96. ↗
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• Iaria, Giuseppe, et al. “ Developmental Topographical Disorientation: Case One .” Neuropsychologia 47, no. 1 (2009): 30–40. ↗
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• Lakusta, Laura, et al. “ Impaired Geometric Reorientation Caused by Genetic Defect .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, no. 7 (2010): 2813–7. ↗
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• *Sugita, Yoichi. “ Innate Face Processing .” Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19, no. 1 (2009): 39–44. · A. Face representations in the absence of experience ↗
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• *Mahon, Bradford Z., et al. “ Category-Specific Organization in the Human Brain Does Not Require Visual Experience .” Neuron 63, no. 3 (2009): 397–405. ↗
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• Rosa-Salva, Orsola, et al. “ Faces are Special for Newly Hatched Chicks: Evidence for Inborn Domain-specific Mechanisms Underlying Spontaneous Preferences for Face-like Stimuli .” Developmental Science 13, no. 4 (2010): 565–77. ↗
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• *Zhu, Qi, et al. “ Heritability of the Specific Cognitive Ability of Face Perception .” Currerent Biology 20, no. 2 (2010): 137–42. ↗
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• *Polk, Thad A., et al. “ Nature versus Nurture in Ventral Visual Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Twins .” The Journal of Neuroscience 27, no. 51 (2007): 13921–5. ↗
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• Carbon, Claus-Christian, et al. “ Dissociation of Facial Attractiveness and Distinctiveness Processing in Congenital Prosopagnosia .” Visual Cognition 18, no. 5 (2010): 641–54. ↗
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• *Grossman, Tobias, et al. “ Early Cortical Specialization for Face-to-face Communication in Human Infants .” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275, no. 1653 (2008): 2803–11. ↗
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• Pascalis, Olivier, and David J. Kelly. “ The Origins of Face Processing in Humans: Phylogeny and Ontogeny .” Perspectives on Psychological Science 4, no. 2 (2009): 200–9. ↗
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• *Scholl, Brian J. “Innateness and (Bayesian) Visual Perception: Reconciling Nativism and Development.” Chapter 3 in The Innate Mind 1: Structure and Contents. Edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence and Stephen Stich. Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 34–52. ISBN: 9780195179996. [Preview with Google Books ] · A. Retinal waves: activity-dependent change without experience ↗
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• *Blankenship, Aaron G., and Marala B. Feller. “ Mechanisms Underlying Spontaneous Patterned Activity in Developing Neural Circuits .” Nature Neuroscience Reviews 11 (2010): 18–29. ↗
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• Xu, Hong-Ping, et al. “ An Instructive Role for Patterned Spontaneous Retinal Activity in Mouse Visual Map Development .” Neuron 70, no. 6 (2011): 1115–27. ↗
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• *Wang, Bor-Shuen, et al. “ Critical Period Plasticity Matches Binocular Orientation Preference in the Visual Cortex .” Neuron 65, no. 2 (2010): 246–56. ↗
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• Elstrott, Justin, and Marala B. Feller. “ Vision and the Establishment of Direction**—**selectivity: a Tale of Two Circuits .” Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19, no. 3 (2009): 293–7. ↗
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• *May, Arne. “ Experience-dependent Structural Plasticity in the Adult Human Brain .” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15, no. 10 (2011): 475–82. ↗
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• Bavelier, Daphne, et al. “ Removing Brakes on Adult Brain Plasticity: from Molecular to Behavioral Interventions .” The Journal of Neuroscience 30, no. 45 (2010): 14964–71. ↗
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• *Slater, Alan, et al. “ The Shaping of the Face Space in Early Infancy: Becoming a Native Face Processor .” Child Development Perspectives 4, no. 3 (2010): 205–11. · A. Early experience affects face representations ↗
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• *Scott, Lisa S., and Alexandra Monesson. “ Experience-dependent Neural Specialization During Infancy .” Neuropsychologia 48, no. 6 (2010): 1857–61. ↗
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• Grand, Rechard Le, et al. “ Impairment in Holistic Face Processing Following Early Visual Deprivation .” Psychological Science 15, no. 11 (2004): 762–8. ↗
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• Kelly, David J., et al. “ Development of the Other-race Effect During Infancy: Evidence Toward Universality? ” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 104, no. 1 (2009): 105–14. ↗
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• *Freiwald, Winrich A., et al. “ A Face Feature Space in the Macaque Temporal Lobe .” Nature Neuroscience 12, no. 9 (2009): 1187–96. ↗
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• Jeffrey, Linda, et al. “ Four-to-six-year-old Children use Norm-based Coding in Face-space .” Journal of Vision 10, no. 5 (2010): 1–19. ↗
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• *Cantlon, Jessica F., et al. “ Cortical Representations of Symbols, Objects, and Faces are Pruned Back during Early Childhood .” Cerebral Cortex 21, no. 1 (2011): 191–9. ↗
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• *Boyd, Robert, and Peter J. Richerson. “Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness.” Chapter 2 in The Innate Mind 2: Culture and Cognition . Edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence and Stephen Stich. Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 23–38. ISBN: 9780195310146. [Preview with Google Books ] · A. How do “special brain regions” form? ↗
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• *Dehaene, Stanislas, and Laurent Cohen. “ Cultural Recycling of Cortical Maps .” Neuron 56, no. 2 (2007): 384–98. ↗
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• Srihasam, Krishna, et al. “ Behavioral and Anatomical Consequences of Early versus Late Symbol Training in Macaques .” Neuron 73, no. 3 (2012): 608–19. ↗
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• *Ben-Shachar, Michal, et al. “ The Development of Cortical Sensitivity to Visual Word Forms .” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23, no. 9 (2011): 2387–99. ↗
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• Yamada, Yoshiko, et al. “ Emergence of the Neural Network for Reading in Five-year-old Beginning Readers of Different Levels of Pre-literacy Abilities: An FMRI Study .” Neuroimage 57, no. 3 (2011): 704–13. ↗
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• *Gabrieli, John D. E. “ Dyslexia: A New Synergy Between Education and Cognitive Neuroscience .” Science 325, no. 5938 (2009): 280–3. ↗
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• Hoeft, Fumiko, et al. “ Neural Systems Predicting Long-term Outcome in Dyslexia .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 1 (2011): 361–6. ↗
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• Kuhl, Patricia K. “ Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition .” Neuron 67, no. 5 (2010): 713–27. · A. Early & specific neural responses to language ↗
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• *Perani, Daniela, et al. “ Neural Language Networks at Birth .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 38 (2011): 16056–61. ↗
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• Dehaene-Lamertz, G., et al. “ Language or music, mother or Mozart? Structural and environmental influences on infants’ language networks . " Brain and Language 114, no. 2 (2010): 53–65. ↗
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• Fedorenko, Evelina, et al. “ Functional Specificity for High-level Linguistic Processing in the Human Brain .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 39 (2011): 16428–33. ↗
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• *Capek, Cheryl M., et al. “ Brain Systems Mediating Semantic and Syntactic Processing in Deaf Native Signers: Biological Invariance and Modality Specificity .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, no. 21 (2009): 8784–9. ↗
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• MacSweeney, Mairead, et al. “ Phonological Processing in Deaf Signers and the Impact of Age of First Language Acquisition .” Neuroimage 40, no. 3 (2008): 1369–79. ↗
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• *Liegois, Frederique, et al. “ Speaking with a Single Cerebral Hemisphere: FMRI Language Organization after Hemispherectomy in Childhood .” Brain and Language 106, no. 3 (2008): 195–203. ↗
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• Rowe, Meredith L., et al. “[Does Linguistic Input Play the Same Role in Language Learning for Children with and without Early Brain Injury?]( http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1037/a0012848)” Developmental Psychology 45, no. 1 (2009): 90–102. ↗
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• Bedny, Marina, et al. “ Language Processing in the Occipital Cortex of Congenitally Blind Adults .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 11 (2011): 4429–34. ↗
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• *Rovee-Collier, Carolyn, and Amy Giles. “ Why a Neuromaturational Model of Memory Fails: Exuberant Learning in Early Infancy .” Behavioral Processes 83, no. 2 (2010): 197–206. ↗
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• *Eichenbaum, Howard, and Nobert J. Fortin. “ The Neurobiology of Memory Based Predictions .” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1521 (2009): 1183–91. ↗
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• *Komorowski, Robert W., et al. “ Robust Conjunctive Item—Place Coding by Hippocampal Neurons Parallels Learning What Happens Where. ” The Journal of Neuroscience 29, no. 31 (2009): 9918–29. ↗
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• Sauvage, Magdalena M., et al. “ Recognition Memory: Opposite Effects of Hippocampal Damage on Recollection and Familiarity .” Nature Neuroscience 11, no. 1 (2008): 16–8. ↗
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• *Haan, Michelle de, et al. “ Human Memory Development and its Dysfunction after Early Hippocampal Injury .” Trends in Neurosciences 29, no. 7 (2006): 374–81. ↗
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• Adlam, Anna-Lynne R., et al. “ Dissociation between Recognition and Recall in Developmental Amnesia .” Neuropsychologia 47, no. 11 (2009): 2207–10. ↗
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• Temple, Christine M., and Paul Richardson. “ Developmental Amnesia: a New Pattern of Dissociation with Intact Episodic Memory .” Neuropsychologica 42, no. 6 (2004): 764–81. ↗
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• *Cooper, Janine M., et al. “ The Effect of Hippocampal Damage in Children on Recalling the Past and Imagining New Experiences .” Neuropsychologia 49, no. 7 (2011): 1843–50. ↗
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• Race, Elizabeth, et al. “ Medial Temporal Lobe Damage Causes Deficits in Episodic Memory and Episodic Future Thinking not Attributable to Deficits in Narrative Construction .” The Journal of Neuroscience 31, no. 28 (2011): 10262–9. ↗
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• *Schulz, Laura. “The Origins of Inquiry: Inductive Inference in Early Childhood .” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 16, no. 7 (2012): 382–9. · A. Children’s exploration is theory-driven ↗
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• *Cook, Claire, Noah D. Goodman, and Laura E. Schulz. “ Where Science Starts: Spontaneous Experiments in Preschoolers’ Exploratory Plan .” Cognition 120, no. 3 (2011): 341–9. ↗
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• Bonawitz, Elizabeth Baraff, et al. “ Children Balance Theories and Evidence in Exploration, Explanation, and Learning .” Cognitive Psychology 64, no. 4 (2012): 215–34. ↗
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• *Fee, M. S., and J. H. Goldberg. “ A Hypothesis for Basal-ganglia Dependent Reinforcement Learning in the Songbird .” Neuroscience 198 (2011): 152–70. ↗
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• Ullman, Tomer D., et al. (in press) “ Theory Acquisition as Stochastic Search .” Cognitive Development 2012. [ Preprint version ] ↗
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• *Hayden, Benjamin Y., et al. “ Neuronal Basis of Sequential Foraging Decisions in a Patchy Environment .” Nature Neuroscience 14, no. 7 (2011): 933–9. ↗
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• Hills, T. T., P. M. Todd, and R. L. Goldstone. “Search in External and Internal Spaces: Evidence for Generalized Cognitive Search Processes .” Psychological Science 19, no. 8 (2008): 802–8. ↗
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• *Crone, Eveline A., and K. Richard Riddenkoff. “ The Developing Brain: From Theory to Neuroimaging and Back .” Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 1, no. 2 (2011): 101–9. · A. Executive function is heritable and stable over decades ↗
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• *Friedman, Naomi P., et al. “ Developmental Trajectories in Toddlers’ Self-restraint Predict Individual Differences in Executive Functions 14 Years Later: a Behavioral Genetic Analysis .” Developmental Psychology 47, no. 5 (2010): 1410–30. ↗
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• Casey, B. J., et al. “ Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Delay of Gratification 40 Years Later .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 36 (2011): 14998–5003. ↗
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• Moffitt, Terrie E., et al. “ A Gradient of Childhood Self-control Predicts Health, Wealth, and Public Safety .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 7 (2011): 2693–8. ↗
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• *Diamond, Adele, and Kathleen Lee. “ Interventions Shown to Aid Executive Function Development in Children 4 to 12 Years Old .” Science 333, no. 6045 (2011): 959–64. ↗
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• Kovacs, Agnes Melinda, and Jacques Mehler. “ Cognitive Gains in 7-month-old Bilingual Infants .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, no. 16 (2009): 6556–60. ↗
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• *Blair, Clancy. “ Stress and the Development of Self-Regulation in Context .” Child Development Perspectives 4, no. 3 (2010): 181–8. ↗
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• Talwar, Victoria, et al. “ Effects of a Punitive Environment on Children’s Executive Functioning: A Natural Experiment .” Social Development 20, no. 4 (2011): 805–24. ↗
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• McDermott, Jennifer M., et al. “ Early Adversity and Neural Correlates of Executive Function: Implications for Academic Adjustment .” Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2, no. 2 (2012): (Supplement 1): S59–S66. ↗
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• *Thompson-Schill, Sharon L., et al. “ Cognition Without Control: When a Little Frontal Lobe Goes a Long Way .” Current Directions in Psychological Science 18, no. 5 (2007): 259–63. ↗
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• *Baillargeon, R., R. M. Scott, et al. “ False-belief Understanding in Infants .” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14, no. 3 (2010): 110–8. ↗
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• *Apperly, Ian A., et al. “ Studies of Adults Can Inform Accounts of Theory of Mind Development .” Developmental Psychology 45, no. 1 (2009): 190–201. ↗
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• Qureshi, Adam W., et al. “ Executive Function is Necessary for Perspective Selection, not Level-1 Visual Perspective Calculation: Evidence from a Dual-task Study of Adults .” Cognition 117, no. 2 (2010): 230–6. ↗
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• *Hughes, Claire, and Rosie Ensor. “ Executive Function and Theory of Mind: Predictive Relations from Ages 2 to 4 .” Developmental Psychology 43, no. 6 (2007): 1447–59. ↗
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• *Sabbagh, Mark A., et al. “ Neurodevelopmental Correlates of Theory of Mind in Preschool Children .” Child Development 80, no. 4 (2009): 1147–62. ↗
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• Lackner, Christine, et al. “ Dopamine Receptor D4 Gene Variation Predicts Preschoolers’ Developing Theory of Mind .” Developmental Science 15, no. 2 (2012): 272–80. ↗
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• Saxe, Rebecca, et al. “ Reading Minds Versus Following Rules: Dissociating Theory of Mind and Executive Control in the Brain .” Social Neuroscience 1, no. 3–4 (2006): 284–98. ↗
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• Tenenbaum, Joshua B., et al. “ How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction .” Science 331, no. 6022 (2011): 1279–85. ↗
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• Carey, Susan. “ Precis of The origins of concepts .” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24, no. 3 (2011): 113–24. ↗
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• ———. “Fractions” and “Temperature.” In The Origins of Concepts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 344–59, and 361–76. ISBN: 9780195367638. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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