Behavior Genetics of Cognition Across the Lifespan, Deborah Finkel; Chandra A. Reynolds
Автор: Denes Gianfranco Название: Neural Plasticity Across the Lifespan ISBN: 1848722818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848722811 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Neural Plasticity Across the Lifespan reviews the recent scientific developments which are transforming our understanding of the human brain. For many years it was thought that modifications to the structural and functional organization of the brain were limited to a short early period of life, "the critical period", and, in adults, to the memory system. Recent research suggests that on the contrary we should see the human brain as a flexible structure, which adapts and modifies in response to learning, sensory experience, age and disease.
The book provides an integrated overview of contemporary research on neural plasticity - the process by which the brain can change in structure and function to cope with new experiences and react to the effects of acquired damage or sensory deprivation. It reviews data on plasticity in the developing brain, looking at both typical and atypical development, alongside clinical and observational research on the adult population. It covers a number of key topics, including:
different forms of neural plasticity
factors affecting neural plasticity (ageing and gender),
neural plasticity in language acquisition, memory and bodily self-consciousness
mechanisms of repair - plasticity following sensory deprivation and acquired brain damage.
This is an accessible overview of an emerging field of research which has fundamental implications for how we perceive our potential to change throughout our lives. It will be essential reading for all students of cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience and lifespan development.
Описание: A guide to managing spastic hypertonia after brain injury and the full overview of this area. It offers an extensive clinical manual for neurological practice, a key reference for students and qualified practitioners, and a valuable resource for all occupational therapists and physiotherapists working with brain-injured clients.
Автор: Joan Perera; Melina Aparici; Elisa Rosado; Naym? S Название: Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan ISBN: 3319211358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319211350 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan
Автор: Joan Perera; Melina Aparici; Elisa Rosado; Naym? S Название: Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan ISBN: 3319358413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319358413 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Introduction by Joan Perera, Melina Aparici, Elisa Rosado, & Naymй Salas.-PART I: Early Literacy Development.- 1. Writing and spelling development: Impact of Liliana Tolchinsky's Research over 30 years by Malatesha Joshi.- 2. Mother-child Joint Writing as a Learning Activity by Dorit Aram and Iris Levin.- 3. The Language of Affect in Bilingual Child Directed Speech by Marta Shiro.- 4. Home and School Predictors of Reading Achievement in Linguistically Diverse Learners in the Intermediate Primary Grades by Ludo Verhoeven and Willy van Elsдcker.- 5. Development of Literacy and Notational Knowledge. Prediction of Literacy Development Difficulties through Graphomotor Measures in Grade 1 by Olga Soler, Cristina Sotoca Lasheras, Yago Ramis, and Judit Castellа Mate.- 6. Syllabic Processes in the Initial Stages of Writing Development by Sofнa A. Vernon.- 7. Writing as a Domain of Knowledge for both Children and Researchers by Anna Sandbank.- 8. Perspectives on Spoken and Written Language: Evidence from English Speaking Children by Judy Reilly and Lara Polse.- 9. The Development of Narrative Discourse in French by 5 to 10 years old Children: Some Insights from a Conversational Interaction Method by Edy Veneziano.- 10. The Relationships between Oral and Written Sentence Generation in English Speaking Children: The Role of Language and Literacy Skills by Julie Dockrell and Vincent Connelly.- PART II: Later Literacy Development.- 11. Linguistic Literacy and Later Language Development by Ruth Berman.- 12. Later Development of Relative Clauses across Discourse Genres and Modalities of Production by Melina Aparici, Elisa Rosado, and Joan Perera.- 13. When Causation meets Motion: Motion Events at the Interface between Coherence and Cohesion in Narrative Development by Judy Kupersmitt.- 14. The Development of Referential choice in Spanish Narratives among School-age Children and Adolescents by Aurora Bel and Milagros Albert.- 15. Categories of Referential Content in Expository Discussions of Conflict by Bracha Nir and Irit Katzenberger.- 16. A Developmental Perspective on the units of Written French by Emilie Ailhaud, Florence Chenu, and Harriet Jisa.- 17. Linguistic Correlates of Text Quality in Spanish from Childhood to Adulthood by Naymй Salas, Anna Llauradу, Cristina Castillo, Mariona Taulй, and Toni Martн.- 18. Sentence Generation in Children with and without Problems of Written Expression by Barbara Arfй and Eleonora Pizzocaro.- 19. Top-down Measures in 7th Grade Writing: The Effects of Genre and SES by Dorit Ravid, Tsila Shalom, Elitzur Dattner, Irit Katzenberger, and Guy Sha'shoua.- Personal Tributes
Автор: Dolores Pushkar; William M. Bukowski; Alex E. Schw Название: Improving Competence Across the Lifespan ISBN: 1441932933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441932938 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Proceedings of a Conference held in Montreal, Canada, November 15-17, 1996
This stimulating volume addresses vital questions about gene/environment interactions as they affect cell health from the prenatal period through later life. Beginning with a tour of epigenetic processes in the human body, the book assembles current theoretical and empirical developments across the discipline, among them transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, the effects of maternal nutrition on epigenetic change, and possible links between epigenetics and childhood obesity. Public health and policy aspects of the field are discussed in depth, with the understanding that much can be done to improve our epigenetic health as a species. And in this vein, contributors consider future possibilities, such as the reprogramming of genes to reverse cancer and other diseases.
Included in the coverage:
The role of environmental epigenetics in perinatal and neonatal development
The epigenetic biomarker γH2AX: from bench science to clinical trials
What's the risk? Dental amalgam, mercury exposure, and human health risks throughout the lifespan
Post-traumatic stress disorder: neurological, genetic, and epigenetic bases
Children's exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs: long-term outcomes
Ethical implications of epigenetics
Epigenetics, the Environment, and Children's Health Across Lifespans brings real-world knowledge and applications of this increasingly important field to public health practitioners, maternal and child health researchers, and environmental health experts.
Автор: Specht, Jule Название: Personality Development Across the Lifespan ISBN: 0128046740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780128046746 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 13298.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Personality Development across the Lifespan examines the development of personality characteristics from childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood, and old age. It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives, methods, and empirical findings of personality and developmental psychology, also detailing insights on how individuals differ from each other, how they change during life, and how these changes relate to biological and environmental factors, including major life events, social relationships, and health.
The book begins with chapters on personality development in different life phases before moving on to theoretical perspectives, the development of specific personality characteristics, and personality development in relation to different contexts, like close others, health, and culture.
Final sections cover methods in research on the topic and the future directions of research in personality development.
Автор: Denes Название: Neural Plasticity Across the Lifespan ISBN: 184872280X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848722804 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Neural Plasticity Across the Lifespan reviews the recent scientific developments which are transforming our understanding of the human brain. For many years it was thought that modifications to the structural and functional organization of the brain were limited to a short early period of life, "the critical period", and, in adults, to the memory system. Recent research suggests that on the contrary we should see the human brain as a flexible structure, which adapts and modifies in response to learning, sensory experience, age and disease.
The book provides an integrated overview of contemporary research on neural plasticity - the process by which the brain can change in structure and function to cope with new experiences and react to the effects of acquired damage or sensory deprivation. It reviews data on plasticity in the developing brain, looking at both typical and atypical development, alongside clinical and observational research on the adult population. It covers a number of key topics, including:
different forms of neural plasticity
factors affecting neural plasticity (ageing and gender),
neural plasticity in language acquisition, memory and bodily self-consciousness
mechanisms of repair - plasticity following sensory deprivation and acquired brain damage.
This is an accessible overview of an emerging field of research which has fundamental implications for how we perceive our potential to change throughout our lives. It will be essential reading for all students of cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience and lifespan development.
Intriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection. Studies from infancy to late adulthood show both forces as shaping individuals' relationships within family and non-family contexts, and examine how these relationships, in turn, continue to shape the individual. Transitional periods, in which individuals become more autonomous and relationships and personal identities become more complicated, receive special emphasis. In addition, chapters shed light on the extent to which the quantity and quality of genetic and environmental influence may shift across and even within life stages.
Included in the coverage:
Gene-environment interplay in parenting young children.
The sibling relationship as a source of shared environment.
Gene-environment transactions in childhood and adolescent problematic peer relationships.
Toward a developmentally sensitive and genetically informed perspective on popularity.
Spouse, parent, and co-worker: roles and relationships in adulthood.
The family system as a unit of clinical care: the role of genetic systems.
Behavioral geneticists, clinical psychologists, and family therapists will find in Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan a window into current thinking on the subject, new perspectives for understanding clients and cases, and ideas for further study.
Автор: Deborah Finkel; Chandra A. Reynolds Название: Behavior Genetics of Cognition Across the Lifespan ISBN: 1493902393 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493902392 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16070.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Along with psychopathology, cognition has been one of the primary phenotypic focal points of the field of behavior genetics since its inception. Francis Galton’s 1874 examination of eminent families in Britain was among the earliest attempts to investigate whether cognitive achievements run in families. This volume presents current methodologies for understanding cognitive abilities that move beyond the outdated nature vs. nurture paradigm. Recent advances in both collection and statistical modeling of twin data, particularly longitudinal twin data, make this an especially advantageous moment to produce a work that presents a collection of the groundbreaking research on cognitive abilities across the lifespan. This volume presents an overview of the current state of quantitative and molecular genetic investigations into the many facets of cognitive performance and functioning across the lifespan.
Автор: Labouvie-Vief, Gisela Название: Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan ISBN: 3319098217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319098210 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan. The book proposes a core language by which to describe positive and problematic developmental changes by recourse to a parsimonious set of core principles, such as elevations or declines in tension thresholds and their relation to the waxing and waning of the cognitive system over the life course. It integrates, similarly, the lifelong consequences of the positive or damaging aspects of the social milieu in fostering increases in tension thresholds with their advanced capacity for maintaining equilibrium and warding off stress versus a lowering of tension thresholds with disturbances of equilibrium maintenance and heightened susceptibility to stress and deregulation.
