The relevance of developmental-psychobiological metatheory to developmental neuropsychology.
This article reviews 4 aspects of developmental-psychobiological metatheory that are of particular relevance to developmental conceptions of neuropsychology: probabilistic epigenesis, the various roles of experience in affecting the development of the nervous system, and the developmental principles of equifinality and equipotentiality, the latter being especially pertinent to the understanding of compensatory phenomena observed in studies of early brain damage.
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Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. gottlieb@email.unc.edu
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D015509:Developmental Biology; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D009484:Neuropsychology; D011582:Psychological Theory