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Causal Mechanisms of Behavioural Development »

Authors: Sarnoff A. Mednick, Johan J. Bolhuis
ISBN-13: 9780521111782, ISBN-10: 0521111781
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: June 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Sarnoff A. Mednick

Book Synopsis

This collection of articles by scientists from various disciplines discusses all the significant conceptual and empirical advances in the study of behavioral development. A special feature of the approach taken here is that learning is considered to be one process contributing to the development of the individual from conception to death. The brain's development is also discussed in relation to behavioral processes.

	List of contributors
	Foreword: Introducing Jaap Kruijt
	Preface
1	The concept of cause in the study of behavior	3
2	Neurobiological analyses of behavioural mechanisms in development	16
3	The neural basis for the acquisition and production of bird song	49
4	Sexual imprinting as a two-stage process	82
5	The influence of social interactions on the development of song and sexual preferences in birds	98
6	Perceptual mechanisms in imprinting and song learning	116
7	The development of action patterns	147
8	The ontogeny of social displays: interplay between motor development, development of motivational systems and social experience	183
9	Psychobiology of the early mother-young relationship	212
10	Development of behavior systems	242
11	Cortical mechanisms of cognitive development	267
12	Cognitive development in animals	289
13	The biological building blocks of spoken language	300
14	Behavioral change as a result of experience: toward principles of learning and development	327
15	The varieties of learning in development: toward a common framework	358
16	Representation development in associative systems	377
	Author index	403
	Subject index	413