DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES
9.10 and 9.100 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
SPRING SEMESTER 1999
Monday, May 10
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Adele Diamond, Shriver Center
Required Reading for Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Diamond, A. (1991). Frontal lobe involvement in cognitive changes
during the first year of life. In K. R. Gibson & A. C.
Petersen (Eds.), Brain maturation and cognitive development: Comparative
and cross-cultural perspectives (pp. 127-180). New York: Aldine
de Gruyter.
Diamond, A. (1988). Differences between adult and infant cognition:
Is the crucial variable presence or absence of language? In L. Weiskrantz
(Ed.), Thought without language (p. 337-370). Oxford, England:
Oxford University Press.
Bachevalier, J., & Mishkin, M. (1984). An early and a late
developing system for learning and retention in infant monkeys. Behavioral
Neuroscience, 98, 770-778.
Required Reading for Graduate Students (Recommended for Undergraduates)
Diamond, A. (1996). Evidence for the importance of dopamine for prefrontal
cortex functions early in life. Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society (London) Series B, 351, 1483-1494.
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