Revised papers presented at a series of lectures, during the 1986-87 academic year. Organized by the Program for Developmental Research, University of Maryland, College Park.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Continuity and discontinuity in development / Jerome Kagan -- Uptight and laid-back monkeys : individual differences in the response to social challenges / Stephen J. Suomi -- Theoretical issues in investigating intellectual plasticity / Sandra Scarr -- Perception, cognition, and the ontogenetic and phylogenetic emergence of human speech / Patricia K. Kuhl -- The instinct for vocal learning : songbirds / Peter Marler -- Plasticity of cortical development / Pasko Rakic.