Neuroscience
Available from BBC Radio 4:
In Our Time: The Infant Brain: Listen Here.
Description, from the BBC source link:
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Neuroscience
Developmental Neuropsychology: The Infant Brain on BBC Radio 4
Available from BBC Radio 4:
In Our Time: The Infant Brain: Listen Here.
Description, from the BBC source link:
Melvyn Bragg and guests Usha Goswami, Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Denis Mareschal discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
For obvious reasons, what happens in the minds of very young, pre-verbal children is elusive. But over the last century, the psychology of early childhood has become a major subject of study.
Some scientists and researchers have argued that children develop skills only gradually, others that many of our mental attributes are innate.
Sigmund Freud concluded that infants didn't differentiate themselves from their environment.
The pioneering Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget thought babies' perception of the world began as a 'blooming, buzzing confusion' of colour, light and sound, before they developed a more sophisticated worldview, first through the senses and later through symbol.
More recent scholars such as the leading American theoretical linguist Noam Chomsky have argued that the fundamentals of language are there from birth. Chomsky has famously argued that all humans have an innate, universally applicable grammar.
Over the last ten to twenty years, new research has shed fresh light on important aspects of the infant brain which have long been shrouded in mystery or mired in dispute, from the way we start to learn to speak to the earliest understanding that other people have their own minds.
With:
Usha Goswami, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and Director of its Centre for Neuroscience in Education
Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London
Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck College, University of London.
- The Special Issue Spotter
We look out for the latest journal special issues so you don't have to: New insights in trauma and memory (Memory). Social Network Analysis and Children's Peer Relationships (New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development). Cracking the orthographic...
- Testing Foetal Cognition
Annette Karmiloff-Smith: "Two lines of research have motivated my choice of a psychology experiment that has hitherto never been done. The first involves scientifically-controlled studies of the typically developing foetus during the last three months...
- How Babies Go Sole Searching
'From the Archives': first published in the Digest 16/02/04 Babies start using their feet to explore the world before they use their hands. That's according to James Galloway and Esther Thelen at the Universities of Indiana and Delaware, USA....
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A new word (for me, at least) for a new discipline of study in neuropsychology and neuroscience. Best wishes, Prof. Jones! Investigating the brain’s white matter Cardiff University News Centre 07 November 2011 [snippet] "Pioneering brain research at...
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