Few Areas Of Research Have Yielded More Exciting Results In Recent Years Than Studies On Infant And Childhood Congnition. Reflecting Great Strides Undertaken In This Important Field, The New Edition Of The Wiley-blackwell Handbook Of Childhood Cognitive Development Presents A Thorough And Authoritative Overview Of The Latest Research On Various Areas Of A Child's Cognitive Development, Including The Newest Data From Cognitive Neuroscience. Top Scholars In Their Respective Fields Have Either Updated Contributions From The First Edition By Incorporating Their Latest Findings And Developments Or, In Several Instances, Provided Entirely New Chapters. Important Issues Such As Categorization, Memory, And Reasoning Are Revisited, Along With All-new Entries On Social Cognitive Development And Language. Other Topics Addressed Include Moral And Symbolic Development, Pretend Play, Spatial Development, And The Historical And Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives That Inform Cognitive Development. The Wiley-blackwell Handbook Of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second Edition, Is An Invaluable Resource On The Latest Research And Theories That Shape Our Understanding Of The Crucial Cognitive Development Of A Child, From Infancy To The Onset Of Adolescence. --book Jacket. How Do Infants Reason About Physical Events? / ReneΓ© Baillargeon [and Others] -- Social Cognition And The Origins Of Imitation, Empathy, And Theory Of Mind / Andrew N. Meltzoff -- Kinds Of Agents: The Origins Of Understanding Instrumental And Communicative Agency / GyΓΆrgy Gergely -- Social Cognition And Social Motivations In Infancy / Malinda Carpenter -- Born To Categorize / Paul C. Quinn -- Early Memory Development / Patricia J. Bauer, Marina Larkina, And Joanne Deocampo -- Early Word-learning And Conceptual Development: Everything Had A Name, And Each Name Gave Birth To A New Thought / Sandra R. Waxman And Erin M. Leddon -- Development Of The Animate-inanimate Distinction / John E. Opfer And Susan A. Gelman -- Language Development / Michael Tomasello -- Developing A Theory Of Mind / Henry M. Wellman -- Pretend Play And Cognitive Development / Angeline Lillard, Ashley M. Pinkham, And Eric Smith --^ Early Development Of The Understanding And Use Of Symbolic Artifacts / Judy S. Deloache -- Memory Development In Childhood / Wolfgang Schneider -- Causal Reasoning And Explanation / Barbara Koslowski And Amy Masnick -- Inductive And Deductive Reasoning / Usha Goswami -- The Development Of Moral Reasoning / Larry P. Nucci And Matthew Gingo -- Spatial Development: Evolving Approaches To Enduring Questions / Lynn S. Liben And Adam E. Christensen -- Children's Intuitive Physics / Friedrich Wilkening And Trix Cacchione -- What Is Scientific Thinking And How Does It Develop? / Deanna Kuhn -- Reading Development And Dyslexia / Margaret J. Snowling And Silke M. GΓΆbel -- Children's Understanding Of Mathematics / Peter Bryant And Terezinha NuΓ±es -- Executive Function In Typical And Atypical Development / Philip David Selazo And Ulrich MΓΌller -- Language And Cognition: Evidence From Disordered Language / Barbara Dodd And Sharon Crosbie --^ The Empathizing-systematizing (e-s) Theory Of Autism: A Cognitive Developmental Account / Simon Baron-cohen -- Piaget's Theory: Past, Present, And Future / Patricia H. Miller -- Vygotsky And Psychology / Harry Daniels -- Information-processing Models Of Cognitive Development / Graeme S. Halford And Glenda Andrews -- Neuroconstructivism / Gert Westermann, Michael S.c. Thomas, And Annette Karmiloff-smith -- Individual Differences In Cognitive Development / Robert J. Sternberg. Edited By Usha Goswami. Rev. Ed. Of: Blackwell Handbook Of Childhood Cognitive Development. 2003. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.