Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology - Developing Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications,

The collected papers from the most prestigious symposia in the field of child development provide scholars, students, and practitioners with access to the work of key researchers in human development.

List of contents

Preface vii List of Contributors xi 1 What Is Cognitive Control? 1 Philip David Zelazo and Jacob E. Anderson PART I: Mechanisms 2 Development of Neural Networks Supporting Goal-Directed Behavior 23 Elizabeth L. Johnson, Sarah E. Munro, and Silvia A. Bunge 3 Developing Cognitive Control: The Costs and Benefits of Active, Abstract Representations 55 Yuko Munakata, Hannah R. Snyder, and Christopher H. Chatham 4 The Emerging Executive: Using Dynamic Neural Fields to Understand the Development of Cognitive Control 91 John P. Spencer and Aaron T. Buss PART II: Implications 5 Stress and the Development of Executive Functions: Experiential Canalization of Brain and Behavior 145 Clancy Blair 6 Individual Differences in Child Temperament and Their Effect on Cognitive Control 181 Nathan A. Fox PART III: Interventions 7 Want to Optimize Executive Functions and Academic Outcomes? Simple, Just Nourish the Human Spirit 205 Adele Diamond PART IV: Reflections 8 Development of Cognitive Control: Where Are We and What's Next? 233 Maria D. Sera and Nicole Scott Author Index 247 Subject Index 261

Product details

• Authors: Maria Sera, Philip David Zelazo, Philip David Sera Zelazo
• Assisted by: Maria D. Sera (Editor), Philip David Zelazo (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2013
• EAN: 9780470422748
• ISBN: 978-0-470-42274-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Series; Minnesota Symposia on Child Ps
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works