Developmental Neurocognition -

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Sommaire:
The roles of experience in different developmental information stage processes.- The relevance of primate corticogenesis for understanding the emergence of cognitive abilities in man.- Synaptogenesis in the prefrontal cortex of the Macaque.- Maturation of synapses and gaba-immunoreactive neurons in the perinatal human visual cortex.- Dendritic structure and language development.- Development of brain substrates for pattern recognition in primates: physiological and connectional studies of inferior temporal cortex in infant monkeys.- Functional mapping of the human brain.- Mechanisms in infant face processing.- Specific vs non-specific face recognition device.- Neonatal synesthesia: Implications for the processing of speech and faces.- Visual perceptual abilities at birth: Implications for face perception.- Cortical parcellation and the development of face processing.- Hemispheric differences in face processing and brain maturation.- The origins of differential hemispheric strategies for information processing in the relationships between voice and face perception.- Infant sensitivity to perturbations in adult facial, vocal, tactile and contingent stimulation during face-to-face interactions.- The recognition of facial expressions in infancy: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence.- Frontal function in cognitive and emotional behaviors during infancy: effects of maturation and experience.- Why faces are special to infants ? On connecting the attraction of faces and infants? ability for imitation and cross-modal processing.- Sometimes it pays to look back before you leap ahead.- Speech stimuli in the fetal environment.- Infants? perception of speech units: primary representation capacities.- Innate predispositions and the effects of experience in speech perception: the native language magnet theory.- The ontogeny and developmental significance of language-specific phonetic perception.- Emergence of language-specific constraints in perception of non-native speech: a window on early phonological development.- Segmentation of fluent speech into words: learning models and the role of maternal input.- The role of the face in vocal learning and the development of spoken language.- Sonority theory and syllable pattern as keys to sensory-motor-cognitive interactions in infant vocal development.- Motor explanations of babbling and early speech patterns.- Ontogeny of language-specific syllabic productions.- On the ontogenetic requirements for early language acquisition.- The acquisition of prosody: evidence from French- and English-learning infants.- Phonetic systems and phonological development.- The construction of a phonological system.- Connectionist modeling and the microstructure of phonological development: A progress report.- Developmental changes in the acquisition of phonology.- Development of language relevant processing systems: the emergence of a cognitive module.- Some theoretical implications of cross-modal research in speech perception.- Author Index.