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Neuroimaging of typical and atypical development: A perspective from multiple levels of analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2002

MARK H. JOHNSON ,
HANIFE HALIT ,
SARAH J. GRICE  and
ANNETTE KARMILOFF–SMITH
MARK H. JOHNSON
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, University of London
HANIFE HALIT
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, University of London
SARAH J. GRICE
Affiliation:
Institute of Child Health, London
ANNETTE KARMILOFF–SMITH
Affiliation:
Institute of Child Health, London
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To date, research involving functional neuroimaging of typical and atypical development has depended on several assumptions about the postnatal maturation of the brain. We consider evidence from multiple levels of analysis that brings into question these underlying assumptions and advance an alternative view. This alternative view, based on an “interactive specialization” approach to postnatal brain development, indicates that there is a need to: obtain data from early in development; focus more on differences in interregional interactions rather than searching for localized, discrete lesions; examine the temporal dynamics of neural processing; and move away from deficits to image tasks in which atypical participants perform as well as typically developing participants.

Type
Research Article
Information
Development and Psychopathology , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 521 - 536
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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