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Shepp, Mark S.; Jensen, Bruce F. – School Psychology Review, 1983
This study, an approach to controlling "acting out" behaviors of handicapped children in elementary schools, compares the effectiveness of an operant strategy and a cognitive strategy in modifying the behavior of a seven-year-old hyperactive boy. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Cognitive Structures
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Barco, Angel; Kandel, Eric R.; Gordon, Barbara; Lickey, Marvin E.; Suzuki, Seigo; Pham, Tony A.; Graham, Sarah J. – Learning & Memory, 2004
The adult cerebral cortex can adapt to environmental change. Using monocular deprivation as a paradigm, we find that rapid experience-dependent plasticity exists even in the mature primary visual cortex. However, adult cortical plasticity differs from developmental plasticity in two important ways. First, the effect of adult, but not juvenile…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Animals, Visual Stimuli, Science Experiments