Reviews work concerning the development of cognitive domains and naive theories (eg, in
physics, psychology, and biology) and argues that infants and children (aged 2–4 yrs) can …

Anyone sufficiently motivated to take an undergraduate or graduate course in this area
should find [in this book] a great deal to intrigue the imagination and stimulate further interest …

There is a continuing debate in developmental neuroscience about the importance of activity-
dependent processes. The relatively delayed rate of development of the human brain …

Dynamic systems is a recent theoretical approach to the study of development. In its
contemporary formulation, the theory grows directly from advances in understanding …

Human visual perception carves a scene at its physical joints, decomposing the world into
objects, which are selectively attended, tracked and predicted as we engage our …

This review of 20 years of developmental research on Executive Functions (EF) offers a
broad‐brushstroke picture that touches on multiple issues including:(i) findings from typical …

Human activity is both organized and variable, dynamically changing in principled ways.
Children and adults are flexible and inventive in their action and thought, adapting old ideas …

Two-year-olds engage in many behaviors that ostensibly require the attribution of mental
states to other individuals. Yet the overwhelming consensus has been that children of this …

Our understanding of Agency is, in part, the result of domain-specific learning. The nature of
this domain-specific learning needs to be understood in relation to the organization of …

The theoretical and practical understanding of cognitive development depends on working
memory, the limited information temporarily accessible for such daily activities as language …