Child & Developmental Psychology

Do humans start life with the capacity to detect and mentally represent the objects around them? Or is our object knowledge instead derived only as...

This is a systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language. Linguistic theory seeks to specify the range of grammars permitted ...

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the w...

This is a systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language. Linguistic theory seeks to specify the range of grammars permitted ...

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the w...

Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: mor...

Language development remains one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive sciences. In recent years we have seen contributions to the deba...

Frank Keil’s Developmental Psychology represents his vision of how psychology should be taught and is based on nearly four decades of teaching a le...

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the w...

Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectur...

Human activity and thought is embedded within and richly structured by the space around us. We have detailed knowledge of the world that surrounds ...

This volume provides unique and valuable firsthand accounts of the most important longitudinal studies of attachment. Presented are a range of rese...

Do you tell your preschooler one thing and they do the opposite? Are they easily distracted or unable to focus? If you suspect that your child may ...

For years now, learning has been at the heart of research within cognitive psychology. How do we acquire new knowledge and new skills? Are the prin...

One of the great mysteries of music is how it affects us in multitude of ways. Whether talking about our individual tastes as listeners, or individ...

Language development remains one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive sciences. In recent years we have seen contributions to the deba...

How do we develop self-awareness, or a sense of self? One of the most popular theories is that language plays a major role: language and the narrat...

In the 20 years since publication of John Sloboda's landmark volume The Musical Mind, music psychology has developed as a vibrant area of research ...

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the w...

Between the age of two and five, a little girl nicknamed ‘the Piggle’ – seriously disturbed by the birth of a younger sister – visited Dr Winnicott...