The Wiley–Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

Few areas of research have yielded more exciting results in recent years than studies on infant and childhood cognition. Reflecting great strides undertaken in this important field, the new edition of The Wiley–Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development presents a thorough and authoritative overview of the latest research on various areas of a child′s cognitive development, including the newest data from cognitive neuroscience.
Top scholars in their respective fields have either updated contributions from the first edition by incorporating their latest findings and developments or, in several instances, have provided entirely new chapters. Important issues such as categorization, memory, and reasoning are revisited, along with all–new entries on social cognitive development and language. Other topics addressed include moral and symbolic development, pretend play, spatial development, and the historical and contemporary theoretical perspectives that inform cognitive development.
The Wiley–Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second Edition is an invaluable resource on the latest research and theories that shape our understanding of the crucial cognitive development of a child, from infancy to the onset of adolescence.

Spis treści:
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 Developme nt: 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).

Nota biograficzna:
Usha Goswami is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John′s College, Cambridge. She is also Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, which carries out research into the brain basis of literacy, numeracy, dyslexia, and dyscalculia. Dr Goswami has received numerous awards for her work, including the British Psychology Society Spearman Medal, the Norman Geschwind–Rodin Prize for Dyslexia research, and Fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust in the United Kingdom, the National Academy of Education in the United States and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

Okładka tylna:
Few areas of research have yielded more exciting results in recent years than studies on infant and childhood cognition. Reflecting great strides undertaken in this important field, the new edition of The Wiley–Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development presents a thorough and authoritative overview of the latest research on various areas of a child′s cognitive development, including the newest data from cognitive neuroscience.
Top scholars in their respective fields have either updated contributions from the first edition by incorporating their latest findings and developments or, in several instances, have provided entirely new chapters. Important issues such as categorization, memory, and reasoning are revisited, along with all–new entries on social cognitive development and language. Other topics addressed include moral and symbolic development, pretend play, spatial development, and the historical and contemporar y theoretical perspectives that inform cognitive development.
The Wiley–Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second Edition is an invaluable resource on the latest research and theories that shape our understanding of the crucial cognitive development of a child, from infancy to the onset of adolescence.