brain function
Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory
Succeed in the course with COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN AND OUT OF THE LABORATORY! This understandable cognitive psychology textbook provides you with the tools you need to master the concepts and improve your performance on exams. With everyday examples, the author presents brain function ? an abstract and difficult topic ? in a clear and manageable way. Key terms, review questions, CogLab exercises, and Web resources give you many new ways to approach the topics covered in the text. Through hands-on practice and reinforcement, you’ll learn both the importance and personal relevance of understanding brain function.
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Neuro – Cognitive Therapy for Cerebral Palsy, Autism and other neuro-developmental disabilities
My approach is based upon certain irrefutable facts concerning brain function, which I apply to the treatment of children’s developmental difficulties. The most important of these is brain plasticity.
What is Brain Plasticity?
It is the ability of the brain to respond to changes in the environment to enable the person to function as efficiently as possible within that environment. It is led by environmental demand. It is the repeated sensory demands produced by the environment which produce function in the child, – because the brain responds to those sensory demands by building the neural architecture to support the function necessary for the child to function.How do we know this? Because we know that the developmental function of children who have been exposed to poorly stimulating, impoverished environments, is poor, – as is their brain development. We also know that children who are raised in highly stimulating, enriched environments have superior developmental function and superior brain development.