The field of developmental cognitive neuroscience involves trying to understand how the brain supports complex thoughts and behaviors by studying how these processes emerge over development, and how our genes, brains, and experiences interact to make us all unique individuals. Some hot questions include: How does the brain change over the first few years of life and how do these changes support the accompanying changes in perception and cognition? What brain architecture is present when you are born, and how does it change with maturation vs. experience? How does early brain structure and function constrain later learning and plasticity? We will assay foundational studies as well as the latest literature to formulate the field’s current answers to these questions.
Prereq: 3313 or 3513.