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Acknowledgments x List of Contributors xi Part I Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development 1 1 Imitation as a Mechanism of Social Cognition: Origins of Empathy, Theory of Mind, and the Representation of Action 6 Andrew N. Meltzoff 2 The Development of Understanding Self and Agency 26 György Gergely 3 The Acquisition of Physical Knowledge in Infancy: A Summary in Eight Lessons 47 Renée Baillargeon 4 Early Categorization: A New Synthesis 84 Paul C. Quinn 5 Early Word–Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything had a Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought 102 Sandra R. Waxman 6 Early Memory Development 127 Patricia J. Bauer Part II Cognitive Development in Early Childhood 147 7 Development of the Animate???Inanimate Distinction 151 Susan A. Gelman and John E. Opfer 8 Understanding the Psychological World: Developing a Theory of Mind 167 Henry M. Wellman 9 Pretend Play and Cognitive Development 188 Angeline Lillard 10 Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic Artifacts 206 Judy S. DeLoache Part III Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood 227 11 Memory Development in Childhood 236 Wolfgang Schneider 12 The Development of Causal Reasoning 257 Barbara Koslowski and Amy Masnick 13 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning 282 Usha Goswami 14 The Development of Moral Reasoning 303 Larry P. Nucci 15 Spatial Development in Childhood: Where Are We Now? 326 Lynn S. Liben 16 Children's Intuitive Physics 349 Friedrich Wilkening and Susanne Huber 17 What is Scientific Thinking, and How Does It Develop? 371 Deanna Kuhn 18 Reading Development and Dyslexia 394 Margaret J. Snowling 19 Children's Understanding of Mathematics 412 Peter Bryant and Terezhina Nuñes Part IV Topics in Atypical Cognitive Development 441 20 Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development 445 Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Müller 21 Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language 470 Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie 22 The Exact Mind: Empathizing and Systemizing in Autism Spectrum Conditions 491 Simon Baron–Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, John Lawson, Rick Griffin, and Jacqueline Hill Part V Models of Cognitive Development 509 23 Piaget's Model 515 Leslie Smith 24 Vygotsky's Model of Cognitive Development 538 Shawn M. Rowe and James V. Wertsch 25 Information–Processing Models of Cognitive Development 555 Graeme S. Halford 26 Modeling Typical and Atypical Cognitive Development: Computational Constraints on Mechanisms of Change 575 Michael S. C. Thomas and Annette Karmiloff–Smith 27 Individual Differences in Cognitive Development 600 Robert J. Sternberg References 620 Index 737