Cognitive Development

Produktbeschreibung

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour textbook has been updated with the latest research in cognitive neuroscience, going beyond Piaget and traditional theories. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.

1. Infancy: The Physical World 1.

2. Infancy: The Physical World 2.

3. Infancy: The Psychological World.

4. Social Cognition, Mental Representation and

Theory of Mind

5. Conceptual Development and the Biological World 269 - 340.

6. Language Acquisition.

7. Causal Reasoning and the Human Brain

8. The Development of Memory

9. Metacognition, Reasoning and Executive Function

10. Schooling: Reading and Number

11. Theories of Cognitive Development 

Autoreninfo

Usha Goswami is one of the leading researchers in childhood and is respected worldwide. She is Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy.