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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 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. Klappentext Few areas of research have yielded more exciting results in recent years than studies on infant and childhood cognition. Reflecting great strides undertaken in this important field, the new edition of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development presents a thorough and authoritative overview of the latest research on various areas of a child's cognitive development, including the newest data from cognitive neuroscience. Top scholars in their respective fields have either updated contributions from the first edition by incorporating their latest findings and developments or, in several instances, provided entirely new chapters. Important issues such as categorization, memory, and reasoning are revisited, along with all-new entries on social cognitive development and language. Other topics addressed include moral and symbolic development, pretend play, spatial development, and the historical and contemporary theoretical perspectives that inform cognitive development. The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development , Second Edition, is an invaluable resource on the latest research and theories that shape our understanding of the crucial cognitive development of a child, from infancy to the onset of adolescence. Zusammenfassung Few areas of research have yielded more exciting results in recent years than studies on infant and childhood cognition. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. DeLoache 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 La...
