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 |
Précis 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 3½- and 4½-Month-Old Infants |
Renée 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, Michèle 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-Chávez 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. |