The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development

Part I. Neurobiological Constraints and Laws of Cognitive Development: 1. How life regulation and feelings motivate the cultural mind: a neurobiological account; 2. Epigenesis, synapse selection, cultural imprints and human brain development: from molecules to cognition; 3. Mapping the human brain from the preterm period to infancy using 3D magnetic resonance imaging: cortical folding and early maturation processes; 4. Development and maturation of the human brain from infancy to adolescence; 5. Genetic and experiential factors in brain development: the examples of executive attention and self-regulation; 6. The brain basis underlying the transition from adolescent to adulthood; Part II. Fundamentals of Cognitive Development from Infancy to Adolescence and Young Adulthood: 7. Differences between humans, great apes and monkeys in cognition, communication, language and morality; 8. Individuating and physical reasoning about objects in infancy; 9. Infant categorization; 10. Infant numerical cognition: does primitive number sense provide a foothold for learning formal mathematics?; 11. How sophisticated is infants' theory of mind?; 12. Social cognition and moral evaluation in early human childhood; 13. Scientific thinking and reasoning in infants and young children; 14. Computational approaches to cognitive development in infancy: Bayesian and artificial-neural-network models; 15. Development of qualitative thinking: language and categorization; 16. Development of numerical knowledge; 17. Numerical cognition and executive functions: development as progressive inhibitory control of misleading visuospatial dimensions; 18. Developing theory of mind and counterfactual reasoning in children; 19. Development of executive function skills in childhood: relevance for important life-outcomes; 20. Developing executive functions and flexible adaptation during childhood; 21. Reasoning bias and dual process theory: developmental considerations and current directions; 22. Social cognitive development: the intergroup context; 23. Behavioral and neural development of cognitive control and risky decision-making across adolescence; 24. The Triadic neural systems model through a machine-learning; Part III. Education and School-learning Domains: 25. Linking cognitive neuroscientific research to educational practice in the classroom; 26. Literacy: understanding normal and impaired reading development through personalized large-scale neurocomputational models; 27. Reasoning in mathematical development: neurocognitive foundations and their implications for the classroom; 28. Children's scientific reasoning skills in light of general cognitive development; 29. Working memory training: from the laboratory to schools; 30. Interventions for improving executive functions during development: working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibition; 31. Curiosity-driven learning in development: computational theories and educational applications; 32. Neurocomputational methods: from models of brain and cognition to artificial intelligence in education.