Childhood Cognitive Development

VOLUME ONE: BASIC PROCESSES Piaget's Theory - Jean Piaget Perceptual Learning in Development: Some Basic Concepts - Eleanor Gibson Initial Knowledge: Six Suggestions - Elizabeth Spelke Epigenetics and the Biological Definition of Gene X Environment Interactions - Michael Meaney Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates - Andrew Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore Visual Perception in the Newborn Infant: Issues and Debates - Alan Slater Superior Detection of Threat-Relevant Stimuli in Infancy - Vanessa LoBue and Judy DeLoache Action Experience Alters 3-Month-Old Infants' Perception of Others' Actions - Jessica Sommerville, Amanda Woodward and Amy Needham The Other-Race Effect Develops during Infancy: Evidence of Perceptual Narrowing - David Kelly et al. Constructing a Past in Infancy: A Neuro-Developmental Account - Patricia Bauer Believing is Seeing: How Rumors Can Engender False Memories in Preschoolers - Gabrielle Principe et al. Mother-Child Conversations about the Past: Relationships of Style and Memory over Time - Elaine Reese, Catherine Haden and Robyn Fivush Developmental Change in Speed of Processing during Childhood and Adolescence - Robert Kail An Age-Related Dissociation Between Knowing Rules and Using Them - Philip David Zelazo, Douglas Frye and Tanja Rapus Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control - Adele Diamond Developing Human Brain Functions - Mark Johnson Beyond What Develops When: Neuroimaging May Inform How Cognition Changes with Development - Dima Amso and B.Casey The Adolescent Brain - B. Casey, Sarah Getz and Adriana Galvan VOLUME TWO: CONCEPTS, CATEGORIES, AND LANGUAGE Possible Stages in the Evolution of the Language Capacity - Ray Jackendoff Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua - Ann Senghas et al. Cross-Language Speech Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization during the First Year of Life - Janet Werker and Richard Tees Statistical Learning in 8-Month-Old Infants - Jenny Saffran, Richard Aslin and Elissa Newport Word Learning as Bayesian Inference - Fei Xu and Joshua Tenenbaum Do Words Facilitate Object Categorization in 9-Month-Old Infants? - Marie Balaban and Sandra Waxman Can Language Restructure Cognition? The Case for Space - Asifa Majid et al. Numerical Cognition without Words: Evidence from Amazonia - Peter Gordon The Importance of Shape in Early Lexical Learning - Barbara Landau, Linda Smith and Susan Jones Infants' Ability To Draw Inferences about Nonobvious Object Properties: Evidence from Exploratory Play - Dare Baldwin, Ellen Markman and Riikka Melartin Detecting Blickets: How Young Children Use Information about Novel Causal Powers in Categorization and Induction - Alison Gopnik and David Sobel Conceptual Influences on Category-Based Induction - Susan Gelman and Natalie Davidson Psychological Essentialism in Children - Susan Gelman Thinking in Categories Or Along a Continuum: Consequences for Children's Social Judgments - Allison Master, Ellen Markman and Carol Dweck Cultural Transmission of Social Essentialism - Marjorie Rhodes, Sarah-Jane Leslie and Christina Tworek VOLUME THREE: CORE THEORIES First Principles Organize Attention To and Learning about Relevant Data: Number and the Animate-Inanimate Distinction as Examples - Rochel Gelman Mechanisms of Theory Formation in Young Children - Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz Precis of The Origin of Concepts - Susan Carey The Microgenetic Method: A Direct Means for Studying Cognitive Development - Robert Siegler and Kevin Crowley Object Permanence in 31/2- and 41/2-Month-Old Infants - Renee Baillargeon Rapid Change in the Symbolic Functioning of Very Young Children - Judy DeLoache Arrows of Time in Early Childhood - William Friedman Young Children's Conception of the Biological World - Kayoko Inagaki and Giyoo Hatano Folkbiology Meets Microbiology: A Study of Conceptual and Behavioral Change - Terry Kit-fong Au et al. Are Children 'Intuitive Theists'? Reasoning about Purpose and Design in Nature - Deborah Kelemen Developing a Theory of Mind - Henry Wellman Baillargeon Do 15-Month-Old Infants Understand False Beliefs? - Kristine Onishi et al. You Can't Always Get What You Want: Infants Understand Failed Goal-Directed Actions - Amanda Brandone and Henry Wellman Spontaneous Theory of Mind and its Absence in Autism Spectrum Disorders - Atsushi Senju Social Evaluation in Preverbal Infants - J.Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn and Paul Bloom Accent Trumps Race in Guiding Children's Social Preferences - Katherine Kinzler, Kristin Shutts, Jasmine Dejesus and Elizabeth Spelke VOLUME FOUR: REASONING, PROBLEM-SOLVING, AND ACADEMIC SKILLS Development and Learning - Jean Piaget Problem Solving in Infancy: The Emergence of an Action Plan - Michael McCarty, Rachel Clifton and Roberta Collard Bootstrapping the Mind: Analogical Processes and Symbol Systems - Dedre Gentner Core Systems of Number - Lisa Feigenson, Stanislas Dehaene and Elizabeth Spelke Individual Differences in Non-Verbal Number Acuity Correlate with Maths Achievement - Justin Halberda, Michele Mazzocco, Lisa Feigenson Mathematics Teaching in the United States Today (And Tomorrow): Results from the TIMSS 1999 Video Study - James Hiebert et al. Indexing Transitional Knowledge - Theresa Graham and Michelle Perry Literacy Growth in the Academic Year Versus Summer from Preschool Through Second Grade: Differential Effects of Schooling Across Four Skills - Lori Skibbe Cross-Cultural Similarities in the Predictors of Reading Acquisition - Catherine McBride-Chang, and Robert Kail The Relation Between Essentialist Beliefs and Evolutionary Reasoning - Andrew Shtulman and Laura Schulz Stereotype Susceptibility in Children: Effects of Identity Activation on Quantitative Performance - Nalini Ambady et al. Preschoolers' Responses to Social Comparisons Involving Relative Failure - Marjorie Rhodes and Daniel Brickman Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation and Performance - Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck Subtle Linguistic Cues Affect Children's Motivation - Andrei Cimpian Scientific and Pragmatic Challenges for Bridging Education and Neuroscience - Sashank Varma, Bruce McCandliss and Daniel Schwartz VOLUME FIVE: CONTEXT AND CULTURE Extracts from The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. - Michael Tomasello Does the Chimpanzee Have a Theory of Mind? 30 Years Later - Josep Call and Michael Tomasello Economic Cognition in Humans and Animals: The Search for Core Mechanisms - Laurie Santos and Kelly Hughes Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees: A Trade-Off Between Memory and Abstraction? - Tetsuro Matsuzawa Trust in Testimony: How Children Learn about Science and Religion - Paul Harris and Melissa Koenig The Hidden Structure of Overimitation - Derek Lyons, Andrew Young and Frank Keil Natural Pedagogy - Gergely Csibra and Gyorgy Gergely The Double-Edged Sword of Pedagogy: Instruction Limits Spontaneous Exploration and Discovery - Elizabeth Bonawitz et al. Weaving Together Culture and Cognition: An Illustration from Madagascar - Rita Astuti The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations Across Cultures and Development - Cristine Legare et al. Mexican-Heritage Children's Attention and Learning from Interactions Directed To Others - Katie Silva, Maricela Correa-Chavez and Barbara Rogoff A Developmental Examination of the Conceptual Structure of Animal, Artifact, and Human Social Categories Across Two Cultural Contexts - Marjorie Rhodes and Susan Gelman Parents Explain More Often to Boys Than to Girls during Shared Scientific Thinking - Kevin Crowley et al. Relations Between Temperament and Theory of Mind Development in the United States and China: Biological and Behavioral Correlates of Preschoolers' False-Belief Understanding - Jonathan Lane et al. The Relation Between Individual Differences in Fantasy and Theory of Mind - Marjorie Taylor and Stephanie Carlson A Visit from the Candy Witch: Children's Belief in a Novel Fantastical Entity - Jacqueline Woolley et al.