Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

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Part I: Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development: 1. Imitation as a Mechanism of Social Cognition:Origins of Empathy, Theory of Mind and the Representation of Action: Andrew Meltzoff (University of Washington, Seattle) 2. The Development of Understanding Self and Agency: Gyorgy Gergely (Hungarian Academy of Psychology) 3. The Acquisition of Physical Knowledge in Infancy: A Summary in Eight Lessons: Renee Baillargeon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 4. Early Categorisation: A New Synthesis: Paul C. Quinn (University of Delaware) 5. Early Word Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything Had a Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought: Sandra R. Waxman (Northwestern University) 6. Early Memory Development: Patricia J. Bauer (University of Minnesota) Part II: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: 7. Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction: Susan A. Gelman (University of Michigan) and John E. Opfer (Carnegie Mellon University) 8. Understanding the Psychological World: Developing a Theory of Mind: Henry M. Wellman (University of Michigan) 9. Pretend Play and Cognitive Development: Angeline Lillard (University of Virginia) 10. Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic Artifacts: Judy S. Deloache (University of Virginia) Part III: Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood: 11. Memory Development in Childhood: Wolfgang Schneider (University of Wurzburg) 12. The Development of Causal Reasoning: Barbara Koslowski (Cornell University) and Amy Masnick (Carnegie Mellon University) 13. Inductive and Deductive Reasoning: Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge) 14. The Development of Moral Reasoning: Larry P. Nucci (University of Illinois at Chicago) 15. Spatial Development in Childhood: Where are we now? Lynn S. Liben (Penn State University) 16. Children's Intuitive Physics: Friedrich Wilkening (Universitat Zurich) and Susanne Huber (Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory, Max-Planck-Society) 17. What is Scientific Thinking, and How Does it Develop? Deanna Kuhn (Columbia University) 18. Reading Development and Dyslexia: Margaret J. Snowling (University of York) 19. Children's Understanding of Mathematics: Peter Bryant (University of Oxford) and Terezhina Nunes (Oxford Brookes University) Part IV: Topics in Atypical Cognitive Development: 20. Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development: Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Muller (both University of Toronto) 21. Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language: Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie (both University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 22. The Exact Mind: Empathising and Systemising in Autistic Spectrum Conditions: Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, John Lawson, Rick Griffin, and Jacqueline Hill (all University of Cambridge) Part V: Models of Cognitive Development: 23. Piaget's Model: Leslie Smith (University of Lancaster) 24. Vygotsky's Model of Cognitive Development: Shawn M. Rowe and James V. Wertsch (both Washington University in St. Louis) 25. Information Processing Models of Cognitive Development: Graeme S. Halford (University of Queensland) 26. Modelling Typical and Atypical Cognitive Development: Computational Constraints on Mechanisms of Change: Michael S.C. Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith (both Institute of Child Health, University College London) 27. Individual differences in Cognitive Development: Robert J. Sternberg (Yale University)