The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition. New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the major areas of importance in the field, and includes new data from cognitive neuroscience and new chapters on social cognitive development and language  Provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in different areas of cognitive development Spans aspects of cognitive development from infancy to the onset of adolescence Includes chapters on symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development and current theoretical perspectives CONTENTs I Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development. 1. How Do Infants Reason about Physical Events? (Renee Baillargeon, Jie Li, Yael Gertner and Di Wu). 2. Social Cognition and the Origins of Imitation, Empathy and Theory of Mind (Andrew N. Meltzoff). 3. Early Understanding of Kinds of Intentional Agents in Human Infants (Gyorgy Gergely). 4. Social Cognition and Social Motivations in Infancy (Malinda Carpenter). 5. Born to Categorize (Paul C. Quinn). 6. Early Memory Development (Patricia J. Bauer, Marina Larkina and Joanne Deocampo). 7. Early Word Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought (Sandra R. Waxman and Erin M. Leddon). II. Cognitive Development in Early Childhood. 8. Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction (John E. Opfer and Susan A. Gelman). 9. Language Development (Michael Tomasello). 10. Developing a Theory of Mind (Henry M. Wellman). 11. Pretend Play and Cognitive Development (Angeline Lillard, Ashley M. Pinkham and Eric Smith). 12. Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic Artifacts (Judy S. Deloache). III. Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood. 13. Memory Development in Childhood (Wolfgang Schneider). 14. Causal Reasoning and Explanation (Barbara Koslowski and Amy Masnick). 15. Inductive and Deductive Reasoning (Usha Goswami). 16. The Development of Moral Reasoning (Larry P. Nucci and Matthew Gingo). 17. Spatial Development: Evolving Approaches to Enduring Questions (Lynn S. Liben and Adam E. Christensen). 18. Children’s Intuitive Physics (Friedrich Wilkening and Trix Cacchione). 19. What is Scientific Thinking and How Does it Develop? (Deanna Kuhn). IV Topics in Atypical Development. 20. Reading Development and Dyslexia (Margaret J. Snowling and Silke M. Göbel). 21. Children’s Understanding of Mathematics (Peter Bryant and Terezinha Nunes). 22. Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development (Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Müller). 23. Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language (Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie). 24. The Empathizing-Systematizing (E-S) Theory of Autism: A Cognitive Developmental Account (Simon Baron-Cohen). V Theories of Cognitive Development. 25. Piaget’s Theory: Past, Present and Future (Patricia H. Miller). 26. Vygotsky and Psychology (Harry Daniels). 27. Information Processing Models of Cognitive Development (Graeme S. Halford and Glenda Andrews). 28. Neuroconstructivism (Gert Westermann, Michael S.C. Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith). 29. Individual Differences in Cognitive Development (Robert J. Sternberg).