This article considers how experience can influence the developing and mature brain and
proposes a new categorization scheme based upon the type of information stored and the …

How do minds emerge from developing brains? According to “neural constructivism,” the
representational features of cortex are built from the dynamic interaction between neural …

While limited research is available, evidence indicates that physical and mental activity
influence the aging process. Human data show that executive functions of the type …

To what extent are human beings capable of changing their physical characteristics and
behavioural patterns over the course of their lives? This question has engaged scientists for …

In this paper I suggest that play is a distinctive behavioural category whose adaptive
significance calls for explanation. Play primarily affords juveniles practice toward the …

Background and Purpose Neuroanatomical plasticity is well described in lesions of the
hippocampus but remains a subject of some controversy in the neocortex. The purpose of …

Factors which limit the interpretation of studies of aging brain include: secular trends,
species and strain differences, effects of tissue processing, and bias which may be …

A growing number of structural neuroimaging studies have reported significant changes in
gray matter density or volume and white matter microstructure in the adult human brain …

The goal of this chapter is to present a view of the ways in which experience interacts with
intrinsic forces in development to yield a functionally competent brain. The broad issue …

The biology of memory is presently being investigated at a variety of levels from the cellular
to the neuropsychological. The interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience has encouraged the …