1st Edition
Understanding Cognitive Development Approaches from Mind and Brain
1. Introduction to special issue on Understanding Cognitive Development: Approaches from Mind and Brain Barbara Landau 2. Questioning the questions that have been asked about the infant brain using NIRS Richard Aslin 3. The maps problem and the mapping problem: Two challenges for a cognitive neuroscience of speech and language David Poeppel 4. Insights into the developmental origins of concepts from cognitive neuroscience studies of blindness Marina Bedny 5. Routes to short term memory indexing in deaf native users of American Sign Language Elizabeth Hirshorn 6. Developmental dyslexia: The difficulties of interpreting poor performance, and the importance of normal performance Franck Ramus 7. Genes, language, and the nature of scientific explanations: The case of Williams syndrome Julien Musolino 8. The origins and structure of quantitative concepts Jessica Cantlon 9. A critical review of the development of face recognition: Experience is less important than previously believed Kate Crookes 10. Core knowledge of object, number and geometry: A comparative and neural approach Giorgio Vallortigara
Biography
Barbara Landau is the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University, USA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, and held faculty positions at Columbia University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Delaware before she moved to Johns Hopkins in 2001, where she served as Chair of the Cognitive Science Department from 2006-2011. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Cognitive Science Society, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association. Dr. Landau's scientific research addresses the nature of human spatial understanding, the nature of language, and the relationship between these two systems of knowledge in development and adulthood. Her most recent book is Spatial representation: From gene to mind (2012).
