Contents

pp vii-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-x

Foreword: Introducing Jaap Kruijt

pp xi-xviii

Preface

pp xix-xx

Part one - Introduction

pp 1-2

1 - The concept of cause in the study of behavior

pp 3-15

2 - Neurobiological analyses of behavioural mechanisms in development

pp 16-46

Part two - Development of perceptual and motor mechanisms

pp 47-48

3 - The neural basis for the acquisition and production of bird song

pp 49-81

4 - Sexual imprinting as a two-stage process

pp 82-97

5 - The influence of social interactions on the development of song and sexual preferences in birds

pp 98-115

6 - Perceptual mechanisms in imprinting and song learning

pp 116-146

7 - The development of action patterns

pp 147-180

Part three - Development of behaviour systems

pp 181-182

8 - The ontogeny of social displays: interplay between motor development, development of motivational systems and social experience

pp 183-211

9 - Psychobiology of the early mother–young relationship

pp 212-241

10 - Development of behavior systems

pp 242-264

Part four - Development of cognition

pp 265-266

11 - Cortical mechanisms of cognitive development

pp 267-288

12 - Cognitive development in animals

pp 289-299

13 - The biological building blocks of spoken language

pp 300-324

Part five - Learning and development

pp 325-326

14 - Behavioral change as a result of experience: toward principles of learning and development

pp 327-357

15 - The varieties of learning in development: toward a common framework

pp 358-376

16 - Representation development in associative systems

pp 377-402

Author index

pp 403-412

Subject index

pp 413-416