Perceptual Development

Infant EEG and Event-Related Potentials

Infant EEG and Event-Related Potentials
  • Edited by Michelle de Haan.

Published April 2007

Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are one of the few methods that can easily and safely be used to study this process, and have led to exciting discoveries about human brain functioning and the neural basis of cognition.…
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Gaze-Following

Its Development and Significance

Gaze-Following
  • Edited by Ross Flom, Kang Lee and Darwin Muir.

Published September 2006

What does a child’s ability to look where another is looking tell us about his or her early cognitive development? What does this ability—or lack thereof—tell us about a child’s language development, understanding of other’s intentions, and the emergence of autism?…
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Making Sense of Children's Drawings

Making Sense of Children's Drawings
  • By John Willats.

Published May 2005

The message of this book is a simple one: children learn to draw by acquiring increasingly complex and effective drawing rules. In this regard, learning to draw is like learning a language, and as with language children use these rules creatively, making infinite use of finite means. Learning to…
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Action As An Organizer of Learning and Development

Volume 33 in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology Series

Action As An Organizer of Learning and Development
  • Edited by John J. Rieser, Jeffrey J. Lockman and Charles A. Nelson.

Published April 2005

This is the 33rd volume in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology held in October 2002. The symposium was held to honor the scientific and mentoring contributions of Anne Danielson Pick and Herbert L. Pick, Jr.--two longtime and beloved professors of the Institute of Child Development. It…
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Building Object Categories in Developmental Time

Building Object Categories in Developmental Time
  • Edited by Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, and David H. Rakison.

Published March 2005

The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition, semantics, neuroscience, and modeling have begun to tackle a number of different but centrally related…
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Research Manual in Child Development

Research Manual in Child Development
  • Edited by Lorraine Nadelman, Lorraine Nadelman and Lorraine Nadelman.

Published August 2003

This unique hands-on lab manual in child development provides great ideas and resources for teaching research courses involving child subjects. It includes projects in psychomotor/perceptual, cognitive, and social development. Projects are preceded by background essays on the history of that topic,…
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The Child's Creation of A Pictorial World

The Child's Creation of A Pictorial World
  • By Claire Golomb.

Published June 2003

This book places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development of drawing and painting from several currently dominant theoretical perspectives. This is followed by an extensive examination…
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Perceptual Development

Visual, Auditory and Speech Perception in Infancy

Perceptual Development
  • Edited by Alan Slater.

Published October 1998

To make sense of the world, infants have to perceive it, and research into the development of sensory and perceptual abilities is one of the most exciting and important areas of infancy research. This book aims both to reflect current knowledge of perceptual development and to point to some of…
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