Introduction / Bhoomika Rastogi Kar -- Development of selection and control / Bhoomika Rastogi Kar and Narayanan Srinivasan -- The nature and nurture of executive attention development / M. Rosario Rueda and Lina M. Cómbita -- Development of attention networks / Michael I. Posner and Mary K. Rothbart -- Development of task-switching skills / Gijsbert Stoet and Beatriz López -- Role of dopamine in the pathopsychology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder / Chandan J. Vaidya and Evan M. Gordon -- The dopamine hypothesis of ADHD and brain response to stimulant medication / James M. Swanson ... [et al.] -- Exploring prerequisite learning skills in young children and their implications for identification of and intervention for autistic behavior / Prathibha Karanth and Archana S -- Self-consciousness and the origins of an ethical stance / Philippe Rochat -- Learning to share: the emergence of joint attention in human infancy / Gedeon O. Deák ... [et al.] -- Culture and cognitive development: the development of geocentric language and cognition / Ramesh C. Mishra and Pierre R. Dasen -- Cultural differences in cognitive styles / Pierre R. Dasen and Ramesh C. Mishra -- Children's reading development: learning about sounds, symbols, and cross-modal mappings / Sonali Nag and Margaret J. Snowling -- Young children's use of color information during language-vision mapping / Falk Huettig -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging of language in patients with epilepsy / Jija S. James and Chandrasekharan Kesavadas.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
This book conveys the insights gained from recent empirical research in the field of cognitive development and presents a cumulative account of different aspects of the developing brain and cognition.