The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition. New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the major areas of importance in the field, and includes new data from cognitive neuroscience and new chapters on social cognitive development and language Provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in different areas of cognitive development Spans aspects of cognitive development from infancy to the onset of adolescence Includes chapters on symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development and current theoretical perspectives

This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by topscholars in the field of children's cognition.* New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the majorareas of importance in the field, and includes new data fromcognitive neuroscience and new chapters on social cognitivedevelopment and language* Provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research byinternational specialists in different areas of cognitivedevelopment* Spans aspects of cognitive development from infancy to theonset of adolescence* Includes chapters on symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatialdevelopment, abnormal cognitive development and current theoreticalperspectives

Acknowledgements xList of Contributors xiIntroduction 1Part I Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development51 How Do Infants Reason About Physical Events? 11Renée Baillargeon, Jie Li, Yael Gertner, and Di Wu2 Social Cognition and the Origins of Imitation, Empathy, andTheory of Mind 49Andrew N. Meltzoff3 Kinds of Agents: The Origins of Understanding Instrumental andCommunicative Agency 76György Gergely4 Social Cognition and Social Motivations in Infancy 106Malinda Carpenter5 Born to Categorize 129Paul C. Quinn6 Early Memory Development 153Patricia J. Bauer, Marina Larkina, and Joanne Deocampo7 Early Word-Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything Hada Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought 180Sandra R. Waxman and Erin M. LeddonPart II Cognitive Development in Early Childhood 2098 Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction213John E. Opfer and Susan A. Gelman9 Language Development 239Michael Tomasello10 Developing a Theory of Mind 258Henry M. Wellman11 Pretend Play and Cognitive Development 285Angeline Lillard, Ashley M. Pinkham, and Eric Smith12 Early Development of the Understanding and Use of SymbolicArtifacts 312Judy S. DeLoachePart III Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood33713 Memory Development in Childhood 347Wolfgang Schneider14 Causal Reasoning and Explanation 377Barbara Koslowski and Amy Masnick15 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning 399Usha Goswami16 The Development of Moral Reasoning 420Larry P. Nucci and Matthew Gingo17 Spatial Development: Evolving Approaches to EnduringQuestions 446Lynn S. Liben and Adam E. Christensen18 Children's Intuitive Physics 473Friedrich Wilkening and Trix Cacchione19 What is Scientific Thinking and How Does it Develop?497Deanna Kuhn20 Reading Development and Dyslexia 524Margaret J. Snowling and Silke M. Göbel21 Children's Understanding of Mathematics 549Peter Bryant and Terezinha Nuñes22 Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development574Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Müller23 Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language604Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie24 The Empathizing-Systematizing (E-S) Theory of Autism: ACognitive Developmental Account 626Simon Baron-CohenPart IV Theories of Cognitive Development 64125 Piaget's Theory: Past, Present, and Future 649Patricia H. Miller26 Vygotsky and Psychology 673Harry Daniels27 Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development697Graeme S. Halford and Glenda Andrews28 Neuroconstructivism 723Gert Westermann, Michael S. C. Thomas, and AnnetteKarmiloff-Smith29 Individual Differences in Cognitive Development 749Robert J. SternbergIndex 775