Cognitive And Language Development in Children gives an up-to-date and accessible account of how thinking and language develop during childhood. The book is innovative in its approach; it starts by considering cognition and language in infants and continues to weave together these two areas in subsequent chapters that cover aspects of their development through childhood. Building on the themes in The Foundations of Child Development, a previous book within the series, the editors provide a fully up-to-date, broad and engaging overview of the field, ranging from modern understandings of brain architecture and function to the social and cultural contexts of learning. The chapters have many features to assist and facilitate understanding, including defined learning outcomes, research summaries, activities, readings, definitions of key terms and section summaries.
John Oates is Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at The Open University
Andrew Grayson is Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at The Open University