Contributors

PART I SHAPING THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

Wiring the Brain: Activity-Dependent and Activity-Independent Development of Synaptic Circuits

Phillip G. Nelson

Roger Davenport

Effects of Differential Experience on Brain and Cognition Throughout the Life Span

Mark R. Rosenzweig

Experience and Plasticity in Brain Structure: Possible Implications of Basic Research Findings for Developmental Disorders

William T. Greenough

James E. Black

Anna Klintsova

Kathy E. Bates

Ivan Jeanne Weiler

PART II MECHANISMS OF REORGANIZATION

Structural Changes Underlying Long-Term Memory

Craig H. Bailey

Role of Intrinsic Circuitry in Motor Cortex Plasticity

Asaf Keller

Immature Visual Cortex Lesions: Global Rewiring, Neural Adaptations, and Behavioral Sparing

Bertram R. Payne

PART III NEURODEVELOPMENTAL COURSE OF EARLY BRAIN DISORDERS

Role of the Corpus Callosum in the cognitive Development of Children with Congenital Brain Malformations

H. Julia Hannay

Jack M. Fletcher

Michael E. Brandt

Functioanl Consequences of congenital Cerebellar Dysmorphologies and Acquired Cerebellar Lesions of Childhood

Maureen Dennis

C. Ross Hetherington

Brenda J. Spiegler

Marcia A. Barnes

Recovery from Acquired Reading and Naming Deficits Following Focal Cerebral Lesions

Barry Gordon

Dana Boatman

Ronald P. Lesser

John Hart, Jr.

Plasticity, Localization, and Language Development

Elizabeth Bates

Neuroplasticity: Evidence from Unilateral Brain Lesions in Children

Dorothy M. Aram

Continuity and Change in the Development of Children with Autism

Marian Sigman

Norman Kim

Biological and Behavioral Heterogeneity in Autism: Roles of Pleiotropy and Epigenesis

Eric Courchesne

Rachel Yeung-Courchesne

Karen Pierce

PART IV INTERVENTIONS

Issues in Developing Effective Interventions

Susan H. Landry

Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Listening Training and Language Abilities

Michael M. Merzenich

Gabrielle Saunders

William M. Jenkins

Steven Miller

Bret Peterson

Paula Tallal

PART V CONCLUSIONS

Development, Learning, and Neuroplasticity: Where We Are Now

Bennett A. Shaywitz

Index