Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Intro -- Advances in Child Development and Behavior -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: The development of mental rotation ability across the first year after birth -- 1. Initial studies of MR in infants -- 1.1. Forerunners of research on MR in infants -- 1.2. First studies of MR in infants -- 2. Further evidence of the emergence of MR in infancy -- 3. Sex differences in MR in infants -- 4. Factors affecting infants´ MR performances -- 4.1. Motor activity -- 4.2. Stimulus or task complexity -- 4.3. Hormones -- 4.4. Parental attitudes -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Two: Beyond perceptual development: Infant responding to social categories -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method and significance -- 3. Representation of generic object categories -- 4. A turn toward social categories -- 5. A theoretical framework and additional findings on infant responding to social categories -- 6. Do all aspects of infant responding to face race follow an induction model? -- 7. Additional aspects of infant responding to face race: Are classic models of perceptual development sufficient? -- 7.1. Representation of other-race faces -- 7.2. Association of face-race categories with valence -- 7.3. Selective learning -- 8. Beyond perceptual development -- 9. Undoing bias -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three: Groups as moral boundaries: A developmental perspective -- 1. What does it mean for groups to serve as moral boundaries? -- 1.1. Support from theories of morality -- 1.2. Evidence from research on adult moral cognition -- 2. How are groups integrated into moral cognition across development? -- 2.1. Theoretical perspectives -- 2.2. Evidence from infancy -- 2.3. Evidence from early childhood -- 3. Developmental origins -- 3.1. Groups as moral boundaries as part of a built-in, first-draft of morality.

Front Cover -- Advances in Child Development and Behavior -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: The Science of Early Moral Development: on Defining, Constructing, and Studying Morality from Birth -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overcoming three limitations in research on early morality -- 2.1. The need for definitions -- 2.2. Interactionism and constructivism: Beyond innate vs learned characteristics -- 2.3. Combining naturalistic and experimental methods to explain moral development -- 3. Children´s orientations toward helping and harming: Interactions and constructions over the first 4 years -- 3.1. The development of moral orientations toward helping -- 3.1.1. Conclusion: The early development of orientations toward helping -- 3.2. The development of moral orientations toward harming -- 3.2.1. Conclusion: The early development of orientations toward harming -- 4. A new science of early moral development -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter Two: Mechanisms of Cross-situational Learning: Behavioral and Computational Evidence -- 1. The problem: Word learning challenge -- 2. Hypothesis testing vs associative learning -- 2.1. Hypothesis testing -- 2.1.1. Empirical evidence on HT -- 2.1.2. Modeling work on HT -- 2.2. Associative learning -- 2.2.1. Empirical evidence on AL -- 2.2.2. Modeling work on AL -- 3. Examining psychological components in a learning system -- 3.1. Information selection -- 3.2. Learning machinery -- 3.3. Decisions at test -- 4. New directions -- 4.1. Real-time behaviors -- 4.2. Real-world data -- 4.3. Neuroimaging evidence -- 5. General discussions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter Three: When Representation Becomes Reality: Interactive Digital Media and Symbolic Development -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The dual nature of images -- 1.2. Objects of contemplation or action?.

Front Cover -- Advances in Child Development and Behavior -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: A Social-Interactive Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Developing Brain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Social-Interactive Context Alters Behavior -- 3. Key Brain Networks for Social Interaction in Adults -- 3.1. Mentalizing Network -- 3.2. Reward Network -- 3.3. Emotional Salience Network -- 3.4. Mirror Neuron System -- 4. Neural Correlates of Social Interaction in Childhood Through Adolescence -- 4.1. Mentalizing Network -- 4.2. Reward Network -- 4.3. Emotional Salience Network -- 4.4. Mirror Neuron System -- 5. Neural Correlates of Social Interaction in Infancy -- 5.1. Communicative Cues -- 5.2. Joint Attention -- 5.3. Action Imitation and Observation -- 6. Conclusions: The Developmental Role of Key Brain Networks in Social Interaction -- 6.1. Core Role for Mentalizing Network in Social Interaction -- 6.2. Context-Dependent Role for Reward Network in Social Interaction -- 6.3. Connections Within Networks and Between Social Partners -- 6.4. Overall Summary and Clinical Implications -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter Two: Cognition-Action Trade-Offs Reflect Organization of Attention in Infancy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neural Correlates -- 3. Developmental Trajectory of Dual-Task Performance -- 3.1. Childhood -- 3.2. Adulthood -- 3.3. Role of Expertise -- 4. Infant Model of Attention: Embodied Cognitive Load -- 4.1. Sitting and Reaching -- 4.2. Independent Locomotion -- 4.3. Inhibition -- 4.3.1. Inhibition and Attentional Demands -- 4.4. Problem Solving -- 5. Implications for Cognition in Action -- 5.1. Mechanisms of Development Change -- 5.2. Gradual Nature of Development -- 5.3. Interaction Between Developmental Domains -- 5.4. Motor Tasks as a Model for Understanding Development

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