Cognitive Development - The Learning Brain

Zusatztext "This volume is a tour de force. Goswami effortlessly interweaves contemporary research and theory on cognitive development with cutting edge work in both developmental neuroscience and cognitive psychology. The result is a lucid! accessible and always stimulating treatment of the field of cognitive development! which will be of great use to students and researchers alike. A superb piece of scholarship! this volume is also an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in developmental psychology." - Jeffrey J. Lockman! Professor of Psychology! Tulane University! New Orleans! USA"In this forward looking and up-to-date book! Usha Goswami brings together major theories! concepts! and findings from neural and behavioral approaches to cognitive development. Many authors pay lip service to this goal! but Goswami succeeds in integrating behavioral and neural approaches to a greater extent than any other textbook I have seen." - Robert S. Siegler! Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology! Carnegie Mellon University! USA"The study of cognitive development has recently been transformed by new interchange with cognitive science! neuroscience! computer modeling! and studies of nonhuman animals. Conveying this situation to students is challenging. Usha Goswami has provided a valuable and thorough account of cognitive development as informed by both emerging and classic perspectives." - Nora S. Newcombe! Professor of Psychology! Temple University! USA"The book is both scholarly and exciting in the way it inter-weaves the most cutting edge research in cognitive neuroscience and connectionism with the traditional theories of Piaget and Vygotsky. It presents a clear and contemporary introduction to the field that will interest and inform both student and expert alike." - Mark H. Johnson! Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development! University of London! UK"This is a splendid book! providing an excellent and scholarly coverage of contemporary research in cognitive development. It is written by a leading authority! and its readable style makes it an invaluable resource for undergraduates who need to access up-to-date thinking in this field." - Martyn Barrett! Department of Psychology! University of Surrey! UK Informationen zum Autor 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 Faculty's Centre for Neuroscience in Education. Prior to moving back to Cambridge in 2003! she was Professor of Cognitive Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Child Health! University College London 1997 - 2003! and before that! she was University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge! 1990-1997. Klappentext This book offers a new paradigm for teaching cognitive development! adopting a learning focus that incorporates new data from brain science whilst retaining discussion of the concepts taught on traditional developmental courses. Zusammenfassung Shows how discoveries in cognitive neuroscience force us to reconsider traditional theories of cognitive development. This book presents a paradigm for teaching cognitive development! going beyond Piaget to learning and the brain. It also considers the learning mechanisms available to the infant brain. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. Inf...

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• Authors: Usha Goswami, Usha (University of Cambridge Goswami, Usha Claire Goswami, Usha Claire (University of Cambridge Goswami
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2007
• EAN: 9781841695310
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-531-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology