Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

Though the structure of this book is similar to other volumes in the series, I welcome it with even greater enthusiasm than the rest. While they all summarise and review the latest scientific research in their particular area of child development, research in the field of infant cognition has, in the last few years, completely overturned all previous conceptions. This volume, therefore, not only summarises and updates the literature in its field, but also replaces much of it.

If not from the time of Aristotle, certainly from Freud and Piaget onwards, all the literature on the subject of infant cognition...