What can developmental and comparative cognitive neuroscience tell us about the adult human brain?

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-5

  Platt, Michael L ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649385794     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2009.06.002     Document Type: Editorial

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