Usha Goswami 
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development [PDF ebook] 

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

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Acknowledgements x

List of Contributors xi

Introduction 1

Part I Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development
5

1 How Do Infants Reason About Physical Events? 11

Renée Baillargeon, Jie Li, Yael Gertner, and Di Wu

2 Social Cognition and the Origins of Imitation, Empathy, and
Theory of Mind 49

Andrew N. Meltzoff

3 Kinds of Agents: The Origins of Understanding Instrumental and
Communicative Agency 76

György Gergely

4 Social Cognition and Social Motivations in Infancy 106

Malinda Carpenter

5 Born to Categorize 129

Paul C. Quinn

6 Early Memory Development 153

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 180

Sandra R. Waxman and Erin M. Leddon

Part II Cognitive Development in Early Childhood 209

8 Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction
213

John E. Opfer and Susan A. Gelman

9 Language Development 239

Michael Tomasello

10 Developing a Theory of Mind 258

Henry M. Wellman

11 Pretend Play and Cognitive Development 285

Angeline Lillard, Ashley M. Pinkham, and Eric Smith

12 Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic
Artifacts 312

Judy S. De Loache

Part III Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood
337

13 Memory Development in Childhood 347

Wolfgang Schneider

14 Causal Reasoning and Explanation 377

Barbara Koslowski and Amy Masnick

15 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning 399

Usha Goswami

16 The Development of Moral Reasoning 420

Larry P. Nucci and Matthew Gingo

17 Spatial Development: Evolving Approaches to Enduring
Questions 446

Lynn S. Liben and Adam E. Christensen

18 Children’s Intuitive Physics 473

Friedrich Wilkening and Trix Cacchione

19 What is Scientific Thinking and How Does it Develop?
497

Deanna Kuhn

20 Reading Development and Dyslexia 524

Margaret J. Snowling and Silke M. Göbel

21 Children’s Understanding of Mathematics 549

Peter Bryant and Terezinha Nuñes

22 Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development
574

Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Müller

23 Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language
604

Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie

24 The Empathizing-Systematizing (E-S) Theory of Autism: A
Cognitive Developmental Account 626

Simon Baron-Cohen

Part IV Theories of Cognitive Development 641

25 Piaget’s Theory: Past, Present, and Future 649

Patricia H. Miller

26 Vygotsky and Psychology 673

Harry Daniels

27 Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development
697

Graeme S. Halford and Glenda Andrews

28 Neuroconstructivism 723

Gert Westermann, Michael S. C. Thomas, and Annette
Karmiloff-Smith

29 Individual Differences in Cognitive Development 749

Robert J. Sternberg

Index 775

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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.