Book contents
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development
- Child Development
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editorial preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments: External Reviewers
- Introduction Study of child development: an interdisciplinary enterprise
- Part I Theories of development
- Part II Methods in child development research
- Part III Prenatal development and the newborn
- Part IV Perceptual and cognitive development
- Attention
- Audition
- Biological motion perception
- Cognitive development during infancy
- Cognitive development beyond infancy
- Executive functions
- Face perception and recognition
- Imitation
- Intelligence
- Memory
- Multisensory development
- Olfaction and gustation
- Perceptual-motor calibration and space perception
- Sleep and cognitive development
- Vision
- Part V Language and communication development
- Part VI Social and emotional development
- Part VII Motor and related development
- Part VIII Postnatal brain development
- Part IX Developmental pathology
- Part X Crossing the borders
- Part XI Speculations about future directions
- Book part
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Executive functions
from Part IV - Perceptual and cognitive development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2017
Book contents
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development
- Child Development
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editorial preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments: External Reviewers
- Introduction Study of child development: an interdisciplinary enterprise
- Part I Theories of development
- Part II Methods in child development research
- Part III Prenatal development and the newborn
- Part IV Perceptual and cognitive development
- Attention
- Audition
- Biological motion perception
- Cognitive development during infancy
- Cognitive development beyond infancy
- Executive functions
- Face perception and recognition
- Imitation
- Intelligence
- Memory
- Multisensory development
- Olfaction and gustation
- Perceptual-motor calibration and space perception
- Sleep and cognitive development
- Vision
- Part V Language and communication development
- Part VI Social and emotional development
- Part VII Motor and related development
- Part VIII Postnatal brain development
- Part IX Developmental pathology
- Part X Crossing the borders
- Part XI Speculations about future directions
- Book part
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
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