Fall, 2011:
85-423/723 Cognitive Development
Bibliography
Site address: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/bibliography.html

(This site was last updated on 9-19-11 when the Sternberg, 2007, article was added.)

NOTE: The class will meet in Baker Hall 154R
on Aug 30, Sep 1, 6 and 8
For the rest of the semester, the class will meet in
Baker Hall 340A
Tues/Thurs 1:30-2:50 pm - - - - - - Room 340A Baker Hall
The Fall, 2011, bibliography for Cognitive Development is listed below. You can download a pdf file of each reading by clicking on the appropriate link. Click here for a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader if you do not already have this.
Textbook: Siegler, R. S. & Alibali, M. W. (2004). Children's thinking, 4th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Additional Readings (Added after August 30, 2011): Sternberg, R. J., 2007. A systems model of leadership: WICS. American Psychologist, 62, 34-42.
Perceptual Development:
 Rubenstein, A. J., Kalakanis, L., & Langlois, J. H. (1999). Infant preferences for attractive faces: A cognitive explanation. Developmental Psychology, 35, 848-855.

Adolph, K. E., & Berger, S. E. (2006). Motor Development. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Series Eds.) & D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol 2: Cognition, perception, and language (6th ed., pp. 161-213). New York: Wiley. (Read pp. 161-171.)

Mauer, D., Lewis, T. L., Brent, H. P. & Levin, A. V. (1999). Rapid improvement in the acuity of infants after visual input. Science, 286, 108-110.
Language Development:
 Rowe, M. L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2009). Early gesture selectively predicts later language learning. Developmental Science, 12, 182-187.

Smith, L. B., Jones, S. S., Landau, B., Gershkoff-Stowe, L., & Samuelson, L. (2002). Object name learning provides on-the-job training for attention. Psychological Science, 13, 13-19.
Conceptual Development:
 Tager-Flusberg, H. (2007). Evaluating the theory-of-mind hypothesis of autism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 311-315.

Taylor, M. & Mannering, 2007. Of Hobbes and Harvey: The imaginary compaions of children and adults. In A Goncu & S. Gaskins (Eds.), Play and development: Evolutionary, socicocultural, and functional perspectives (pp. 227-247). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Problem Solving:
 Gauvain, M. (2001). Chapter 6: Solving and learning to solve problems in social context (pp. 137-171). The social context of cognitive development. New York: Guilford Press.

DeLoache, J. S.. (2006). Mindful of symbols. Scientific American: Child Development Reader (pp. 38-43). New York: Scientific American/Worth.

Academic Skills:
 Brown, A. L. (1997). Transforming schools into communities of thinking and learing about serious matters. American Psychologist, 52, 399-413.

Siegler, R. S. (2009). Improving the numerical understanding of children from low-income families. Child Development Perspcetives, 3, 118-124.

Ramey, C. T., & Ramey, S. L (2004). Early learning and school readiness: Can early intervention make a difference? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 50, 471-491.
Conculsions & Challenges:
 Kagan, J. (2008). In defense of qualitative changes in development. Child Development, 79, 1606-1624 (Just read pp. 1606-1612 and pp.1619-1620.)
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