CONTENTS
About the Editors ix
Contributors xi
Introduction: A New Frontier for Developmental
Behavioral Neuroscience 1
Mark S. Blumberg, John H. Freeman, and Scott R. Robinson
Part One • Comparative and Epigenetic Perspectives
1. Th e Value of Truly Comparative and Holistic Approaches
in the Neurosciences 7
Patrick Bateson
2. Developmental Systems Th eory 12
Timothy D. Johnston
3. Rethinking Epigenesis and Evolution in Light of
Developmental Science 30
Robert Lickliter and Hunter Honeycutt
Part Two • Foundations of Neural Development
4. Brain Development: Genes, Epigenetic Events, and Maternal
Environments 51
Pierre L. Roubertoux, Marc Jamon, and Michèle Carlier
5. Programmed Cell Death During Nervous System Development:
Mechanisms, Regulation, Functions, and Implications for
Neurobehavioral Ontogeny 76
Ronald W. Oppenheim, Carol Milligan, and Woong Sun
6. Development of GABAergic Signaling: From Molecules
to Emerging Networks 108
Sampsa T. Sipilä, Peter Blaesse, and Kai Kaila
7. Neural Activity and Visual System Development 140
Tony del Rio and Marla B. Feller
8. Early Patterns of Electrical Activity in the Developing
Cortex 161
Rustem Khazipov and Gyorgy Buzsáki
Part Th ree • Sensorimotor Systems
9. Experience in the Perinatal Development of Action Systems 181
Michele R. Brumley and Scott R. Robinson
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10. Development of Spinal Cord Locomotor Networks Controlling
Limb Movements 210
Laurent Vinay, Edouard Pearlstein, and François Clarac
11. Development of Spinal Motor Networks Controlling
Axial Movements 240
Keith Sillar
12. Role of Spontaneous Movements in Imprinting an Action-based
Body Representation in the Spinal Cord 254
Jens Schouenborg
13. Development of Sound Localization Mechanisms 262
Daniel J. Tollin
Part Four • Early Experience and Developmental Plasticity
14. Early Sensory Experience, Behavior, and Gene Expression
in Caenorhabditis elegans 285
Evan L. Ardiel, Susan Rai, and Catharine H. Rankin
15. Development of Central Visceral Circuits 298
Linda Rinaman and Th omas J. Koehnle
16. Maternal Care as a Modulating Infl uence on
Infant Development 323
Frances A. Champagne and James P. Curley
17. Mechanisms of Plasticity in the Development of Cortical
Somatosensory Maps 342
Reha S. Erzurumlu
18. Cross-Modal Plasticity in the Mammalian Neocortex 357
Sarah J. Karlen, Deborah L. Hunt, and Leah Krubitzer
19. Factors Infl uencing Neocortical Development in the
Normal and Injured Brain 375
Bryan Kolb, Celeste Halliwell, and Robbin Gibb
Part Five • Regulatory Systems
20. Th e Form and Function of Infant Sleep: From Muscle
to Neocortex 391
Mark S. Blumberg and Adele M. H. Seelke
21. Perinatal Gonadal Hormone Infl uences on Neurobehavioral
Development 424
Joseph S. Lonstein and Anthony P. Auger
22. Development of Ingestive Behavior: Th e Infl uence of Context
and Experience on Sensory Signals Modulating Intake 454
Susan E. Swithers
23. Multilevel Development: Th e Ontogeny of Individual
and Group Behavior 475
Jeff rey R. Alberts and Jeff rey C. Schank
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Part Six • Learning and Memory
24. Ontogeny of Multiple Memory Systems: Eyeblink Conditioning
in Rodents and Humans 501
Mark E. Stanton, Dragana Ivkovich Clafl in, and Jane Herbert
25. Ontogeny of Fear Conditioning 527
Rick Richardson and Pamela S. Hunt
26. Developmental Neurobiology of Cerebellar Learning 546
John H. Freeman
27. Developmental Neurobiology of Olfactory Preference
and Avoidance Learning 573
Regina M. Sullivan, Stephanie Moriceau, Tania Roth,
and Kiseko Shionoya
28. Development of the Hippocampal Memory System: Creating
Networks and Modifi able Synapses 587
Th eodore C. Dumas and Jerry W. Rudy
29. Development of Medial Temporal Lobe Memory Processes
in Nonhuman Primates 607
Alyson Zeamer, Maria C. Alvarado, and Jocelyne Bachevalier
30. Episodic Memory: Comparative and Developmental Issues 617
Michael Colombo and Harlene Hayne
Part Seven • Communication
31. Hormones and the Development of Communication-Related
Social Behavior in Birds 639
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
32. Development of Antipredator Behavior 667
Jill M. Mateo
33. Comparative Perspectives on the Missing Link: Communicative
Pragmatics 684
Julie Gros-Louis, Meredith J. West, and Andrew P. King
34. From Birds to Words: Perception of Structure in Social Interactions
Guides Vocal Development and Language Learning 708
Michael H. Goldstein and Jennifer A. Schwade
35. Relaxed Selection and the Role of Epigenesis in the Evolution
of Language 730
Terrence W. Deacon