• 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

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.

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
Larry P. Nucci and Matthew Gingo

17 Spatial Development: Evolving Approaches to Enduring Questions 446
Lynn S. Liben and Adam E. Christensen

18 Children’s Intuitive Physics 473
Friedrich Wilkening and Trix Cacchione

19 What is Scientifi c Thinking and How Does it Develop? 497
Deanna Kuhn

20 Reading Development and Dyslexia 524
Margaret J. Snowling and Silke M. Göbel

21 Children’s Understanding of Mathematics 549
Peter Bryant and Terezinha Nuñes

22 Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development 574
Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Müller

23 Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language 604
Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie

24 The Empathizing-Systematizing (E-S) Theory of Autism: A Cognitive Developmental Account 626
Simon Baron-Cohen

Part IV Theories of Cognitive Development 641

25 Piaget’s Theory: Past, Present, and Future 649
Patricia H. Miller

26 Vygotsky and Psychology 673
Harry Daniels

27 Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development 697
Graeme S. Halford and Glenda Andrews

28 Neuroconstructivism 723
Gert Westermann, Michael S. C. Thomas, and Annette Karmiloff-Smith

29 Individual Differences in Cognitive Development 749
Robert J. Sternberg

Index 775