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Functional brain development in infants: elements of an interactive specialization framework
1Center for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom. mark.johnson@psyc.bbk.ac.uk
Child Development
|June 3, 2000
Abstract:
One future direction for cognitive development research involves a closer integration with our knowledge about the developing brain. I present a framework for analyzing and interpreting postnatal functional brain development in human infants. Three specific hypotheses contribute to this framework, within which a variety of phenomena associated with the neural basis of perception and cognition in normal and abnormal development can be characterized.