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Over the past few decades, innovative, noninvasive techniques for studying the activity of the brain have provided new insights into brain-behavior relations. Now, developmental scientists are using these techniques with young infants and children to shed light on the neural underpinnings of the developmental process. This highly enlightening text brings together a group of world-renowned scientists who believe, and demonstrate, that understanding brain-behavior relations from a developmental standpoint will yield fresh and unique insights into human nature. While accessible to those with little background in the neurosciences, this book adequately portrays the complexity and depth of brain-behavior relations in development.

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[This book] takes development, brain, and behavior each as seriously as they need to be taken, and forges genuinely new links among them. Developmental psychologists, child clinicians, and developmental neuroscientists will all find much of value in this volume. --Bruce Pennington, PhD<br><br> A lovely volume that fills a void....This book provides the reader with an excellent overview of research on electrophysiology of brain development and behavior. It includes some very good reviews of basic brain development and serves as an excellent supplemental text for graduate courses. Human Behavior and the Developing Brain is invaluable to a broad audience--from researchers who want an overview of the area to professionals working in the field. --Megan Gunnar, PhD<br>

&amp;Yacute;This book takes development, brain, and behavior each as seriously as they need to be taken, and forges genuinely new links among them. Developmental psychologists, child clinicians, and developmental neuroscientists will all find much of value in this volume. --Bruce Pennington, PhD <br> A lovely volume that fills a void....This book provides the reader with an excellent overview of research on electrophysiology of brain development and behavior. It includes some very good reviews of basic brain development and serves as an excellent supplemental text for graduate courses. Human Behavior and the Developing Brain is invaluable to a broad audience--from researchers who want an overview of the area to professionals working in the field. --Megan Gunnar, PhD <br>

[This book] takes development, brain, and behavior each as seriously as they need to be taken, and forges genuinely new links among them. Developmental psychologists, child clinicians, and developmental neuroscientists will all find much of value in this volume. --Bruce Pennington, PhD A lovely volume that fills a void....This book provides the reader with an excellent overview of research on electrophysiology of brain development and behavior. It includes some very good reviews of basic brain development and serves as an excellent supplemental text for graduate courses. Human Behavior and the Developing Brain is invaluable to a broad audience--from researchers who want an overview of the area to professionals working in the field. --Megan Gunnar, PhD

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Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle, is editor of Autism: Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Internationally recognized for her scientific research on autism and developmental psychopathology, particularly the effects of early experience on development, she earned her doctorate in developmental and child clinical psychology at the University of Washington, and received postdoctoral training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Kurt W. Fischer, Ph.D., is Professor of Education in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at Harvard University, where he is leading an initiative to focus on diversity in development and its implications for education. During 1992-1993, he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, where he organized a group on Dynamic Modeling of Growth and Development.

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