摘要：
Behavioral, cognitive, and motivational development entails co-constructive interactions between the environmental and social influences from the developmental context, on the one hand, and the individual’s neurobiological inheritance, on the other hand. Key brain networks underlying cognition, emotion, and motivation are innervated by major transmitter systems (e.g., the catecholamines and acetylcholine). Thus, the maturation and senescence of neurotransmitter systems have direct implications for lifespan development. In addition to reviewing evidence on life age differences in dopaminergic modulation and cognitive development, this brief review selectively highlights recent findings on how important influences from the developmental context, such as reward-mediated motivational processes, transgenerational stress transmission, psychosocial stress, and cognitive interventions, may, in part, exert their effects on brain and behavioral development through their effects on neuromodulatory mechanisms.
講者介紹
李淑貞教授(Prof. Shu-Chen, Li, Ph.D.)，目前任職於Department of Psychology, Dresden University of Technology
研究興趣
Her research utilizes an integrated array of conceptual tools and empirical paradigms, ranging from neurocomputational studies for theory development over genetically informed behavioral, EEG, and brain imaging studies to investigate developmental and individual differences in brain-behavior relations across the lifespan. A specific focus is the interactions between neuromodulatory and contextual influences (e.g., stress or reward) on cognitive and motivational development across the lifespan.
- Neuromodulation of Perception, Cognition, and Motivation
- Behavioral and Brain Plasticity across the Lifespan
- Neuroeconomics and Lifespan Development
- Computational Neuroscience of Lifespan Development
- Stress and Lifespan Development
- Biocultural Co-construction of Lifespan Development
學歷
學士 Psychology, Oklahoma City University, OK, USA (May, 1990).
碩士 Cognitive Psychology, University of Oklahoma, OK, USA (Dec., 1991)
博士 Cognitive Psychology, University of Oklahoma, OK, USA (Dec., 1994)