Contents
- Foreword.
- 1. Infancy: The Physical World 1.
- Memory.
- Perception and attention.
- The perceptual structure of the visual world.
- Cognitive neuroscience and object processing in infancy.
- Links between measures of early learning, memory, perception, and attention and later intelligence.
- Summary.
- 2. Infancy: The Physical World 2.
- Perceptual structure and conceptual analyses.
- Reasoning and problem solving about the physical world.
- Learning.
- What babies can't do: Cognitive neuroscience and apparent gaps in physical knowledge.
- Summary.
- 3. Infancy: The Psychological World.
- The central role of the actions of other agents.
- Goal-directed action and the attribution of mental states.
- Actions by infants.
- The understanding of false belief.
- Insights from social cognitive neuroscience.
- Summary.
- 4. Conceptual Development and the Biological World.
- Superordinate, "basic-level", and subordinate categories.
- The role of language in conceptual development.
- The biological/nonbiological distinction.
- The representation of categorical knowledge: A historical perspective.
- Categories and beliefs about the world: "Essences" and naive theories.
- Conceptual change in childhood?
- Summary.
- 5. Language Acquisition.
- Phonological development.
- Lexical development.
- Grammatical development.
- Pragmatic development.
- Summary.
- 6. The Central Role of Causal Reasoning.
- Reasoning about causes and effects.
- Reasoning on the basis of causal principles.
- Causal Bayes nets.
- The understanding of causal chains.
- Scientific reasoning.
- Multivariable causal inferences.
- Biases and misconceptions in causal reasoning.
- Summary.
- 7. Social Cognition, Mental Representation and Theory of Mind.
- The role of language and discourse in metarepresentational development.
- Summary.
- 8. The Development of Memory.
- Early memory development.
- The development of recognition memory.
- The development of episodic memory.
- The development of eye-witness memory.
- The development of working memory.
- The development of strategies for remembering.
- Insights from cognitive neuroscience.
- Summary.
- 9. Metacognition, Reasoning and Executive Functions.
- Metamemory.
- Metacognition and executive function.
- Metacognition and reasoning.
- Summary.
- 10. Reading and Mathematical Development.
- Reading development.
- Mathematical development.
- Summary.
- 11. Theories of Cognitive Development: Piaget, Vygotsky, Connectionism and the Future.
- Piaget's theory.
- Vygotsky's theory.
- Cognitive neuroscience: towards a new theoretical framework.
- References.
- Index.