This book provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in different areas of cognitive development. Acknowledgements, Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development, The Development of Understanding Self and Agency, Early Categorization: A New Synthesis, Early Memory Development, Cognitive Development in Early Childhood, Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction, Pretend Play and Cognitive Development, Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood, The Development of Causal Reasoning, Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, Children's Intuitive Physics, Reading and Development and Dyslexia, Topics in Atypical Cognitive Development, Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language, Models of Cognitive Development, Piaget's Model, Vygotsky's Model of Cognitive Development, Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development, References, Index.