"Neuroscience meets Developmental Psychology"

Developmental Psychology "develops" to Developmental Science and includes now biological sights of development.

Herbert Scheithauer, Kay Niebank
To See an Elephant: Developmental Science
European Journal of Developmental Science

2007/1,1 ; S. 6–22:
The aim of Developmental Science is to understand the complex interacting biopsychosocial mechanisms in the development of living organisms. Thus, Developmental Science has roots in both the biological and social disciplines and can bee seen as a meta-theory rooted in developmental principles to guide work and thinking on biology and social behaviour and their interactions over ontogeny.

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Inhalt

Scheithauer, Herbert / Ittel, Angela / Josephs, Ingrid E. et al.
Editorial: The European Journal of Developmental Science
S. 1–5

Scheithauer, Herbert / Niebank, Kay
To See an Elephant: Developmental Science
S. 6–22

Ittel, Angela
Historical Roots of Developmental Science
S. 23–32

Mack, Wolfgang
Developmental Science as a Boundary Opening Framework for Anthropology, History, Cultural Sciences, and Philosophy
S. 33–46

Josephs, Ingrid E. / Valsiner, Jaan
Developmental Science Meets Culture: Cultural Developmental Psychology in the Making
S. 47–64

Sarimski, Klaus
Understanding Mental Health Problems Among Children with Mental Retardation from a Biopsychological Perspective
S. 65–81

Greve, Werner / Ebner, Natalie C.
Intentional Self-Development – Genetically Framed
S. 82–94

Call for Papers
S. 95–96

Die Fähigkeit zur Gesichtserkennung und Raumwahrnehmung ist genetisch determiniert

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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 19, 2007, 27(51):13921-13925; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4001-07.2007
Nature versus Nurture in Ventral Visual Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Twins Thad A. Polk,1 Joonkoo Park,1 Mason R. Smith,1 and Denise C. Park2 1Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, and 2The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 Correspondence should be addressed to Thad A. Polk, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Email: tpolk@umich.edu

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we estimated neural activity in twins to study genetic influences on the cortical response to categories of visual stimuli (faces, places, and pseudowords) that are known to elicit distinct patterns of activity in ventral visual cortex. The neural activity patterns in monozygotic twins were significantly more similar than in dizygotic twins for the face and place stimuli, but there was no effect of zygosity for pseudowords (or chairs, a control category). These results demonstrate that genetics play a significant role in determining the cortical response to faces and places, but play a significantly smaller role (if any) in the response to orthographic stimuli. Key words: ventral visual cortex; functional MRI; face perception; place perception; word perception; twins
Mit funktioneller Kernspintomographie wurden eineiige und zweieige Zwillinge zur Frage genetischer Prädispositionen bezüglich der Erkennung von Gesichtern, Plätzen und Pseudowörtern untersucht.

Die neuronalen Muster bei eineiigen Zwillingen wiesen deutlich mehr Ähnlichkeiten in der Gesichtserkennung und der Erkennung von Plätzen auf, als bei zweieiigen Zwillingen. Keine Effekte hingegen finden sich für Pseudowörter. Die Resultate zeigen, daß die genetische Prädisposition eine bedeutende Rolle spielt, wenn es um Gesichtserkennung und räumliche Wahrnehmung geht.