List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
Preface to the First Edition xii
Preface to the Fourth Edition xiv
Acknowledgements xv
Abbreviations xix
About the Companion Website xxi

1 The Biology of Change 1
2 Methods and Populations 17
3 From Gene to Brain 32
4 Building a Brain 43
5 Vision, Orienting, and Attention 83
6 Perceiving and Acting in a World of Objects 110
7 Perceiving and Acting in the Social World 121
8 Learning and Long-Term Memory 153
9 Language 166
10 Prefrontal Cortex, Working Memory, and Decision-Making 183
11 Cerebral Lateralization 197
12 Educational Neuroscience 205
13 Interactive Specialization 221
14 Toward an Integrated Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 240

References 251
Index 300