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Cognitive Development : the Learning Brain by Usha Goswami, Ushā Gosvāmī is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cognitive Development : the Learning Brain about?

Cognitive The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the bestselling Cognition in Children. This full-color textbook has been re-written from the perspective of brain science and shows how new discoveries in cognitive neuroscience force us to reconsider traditional theories of cognitive development. Goswami considers the established base of cognitive developmental psychology and demonstrates how new data from brain science require a new theoretical framework based on learning. This book presents a new paradigm for teaching cognitive development, going beyond Piaget to learning and the brain. Conceptualizing cognitive development around three core domains of human knowledge nave physics, nave biology and nave psychology the book considers the learning mechanisms available to the infant brain. Each chapter explores how these mechanisms affect different aspects of cognitive development. Starting with the development of these foundational domains in infancy, Goswami goes on to consider social cognition, language acquisition, causal learning and explanation-based reasoning, and theory of mind. Later chapters explore memory, reasoning, metacognition, executive fu

Author

Usha Goswami, Ushā Gosvāmī

Publisher

Psychology Press Ltd

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781841695303

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences