Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is
a thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development.
The new edition of this full-colour textbook has been updated with the
latest research in cognitive neuroscience, going beyond Piaget and
traditional theories to demonstrate how emerging data from the brain
sciences require a new theoretical framework for teaching cognitive
development, based on learning.
Building on the framework for teaching cognitive development presented
in the first edition, Goswami shows how different cognitive domains such
as language, causal reasoning and theory of mind may emerge from
automatic neural perceptual processes. Cognitive Neuroscience and
Cognitive Development integrates principles and data from cognitive
science, neuroscience, computer modelling and studies of non-human
animals into a model that transforms the study of cognitive development
to produce both a key introductory text and a book which encourages the
reader to move beyond the superficial and gain a deeper understanding of
the subject matter.
Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience is essential for
students of developmental and cognitive psychology, education, language
and the learning sciences. It will also be of interest to anyone
training to work with children.
