作者: Michelle de Haan

CHARLES A. NELSON III, Ph D, is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, holds the Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research at Children”s Hospital Boston, and is the Director of Research in the Developmental Medicine Center, Children”s Hospital Boston. His research is concerned with developmental cognitive neuroscience broadly defined, with specific interests in the effects of early experience on brain-behavior development, in memory development, and in the development of face processing. MICHELLE de HAAN, Ph D, is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, Birkbeck College, University of London. Dr. de Haan”s main area of research is the neural basis of visual recognition and long-term memory. She is the Associate Editor of Developmental Science. KATHLEEN M. THOMAS, Ph D, is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. Dr. Thomas applies neurophysiological techniques, such as MRI, to address the interaction among multiple neural systems involved in learning.