Developmental cognitive neuroscience

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  • 発達認知神経科学

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   Developmental cognitive neuroscience is concerned with the relation between the growing brain and the development of mental processes. Neuropsychologists investigate the cognitive dysfunction in terms of the developmental change for genetic disorders, based on the nativism. Williams syndrome is a contiguous gene syndrome caused by a hemizygous deletion in chromosome 7. Patients with WS exhibit specific cognitive profile with neuropsychological dissociation such as relatively preserved verbal function and severely impaired visuospatial function. Some researchers assume that several genes within the deleted region in the chromosome, which are expressed in brain, are related to the specific cognitive profile in WS patients. However, recent studies deny these ideas. Rather, it is now believed that WS patients process informations by a different way from normal subjects over the whole cognitive function, and that not a single gene plays a specific role in cognitive function profile in WS. Whether a researcher is a nativist, a constructivist, or a neuroconstructivist may have a decisive influence on data analysis. Rethinking innateness of modularity through developmental cognitive neuroscience research may shed light on issues in neuropsychology.

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