Cognitive Development The Learning Brain

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Contents

Cognitive Development: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the bestselling Cognition in Children.

• 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.

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