Books in the Jean Piaget Symposia Series series

This volume brings the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, with chapters from leading researchers in both areas. For cognitive developmentalists and primatologists and comparative psychologists.

This volume includes contributions from scholars examining conceptual development in a variety of scientific domains. It will be of interest to all who study children's thinking, whether from psychological, educational, or philosophical perspectives.

This text looks at culture, thought and development in terms of epistemology, developmental psychology, cognitive evolution, the personal and social, emotions, change, selfhood, individualism/collectivism, class, morality, the mind, spatial reference and semantic development.

A person's values affects profoundly what he/she attends to, thinks about and remembers. This text begins with an overview of what is known about the developmental role of valuation in the acquisition of knowledge and examines ideas of the connection between evaluation and thinking.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is part of the Jean Piaget Symposia. It focuses on classic issues between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development and their neurological substrates. Specifically, it focuses on the experience-contingent, experience dependent

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume, which brings together eminent social scientists studying the interaction between culture, thought, and development, will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in cultural and developmental psychology, education, sociology and anth

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Covers topics such as: evolutionary foundations and functions of play; children's play as cultural interpretation; the use of imagination in children's play; and the imaginary companions created by children and adults. This volume is of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of developmental psychology and cognitive development.

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, "Biology and Knowledge Revisited" focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates.

Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society: The Study of Knowledge and Development, this volume of explorations seeks further understanding of the mechanisms of mental development. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny, ontogeny and history of mentation.

The "grand theories" of child development - from Freud, Erikson, Piaget and others - provide interpretative frameworks for change and development, but theory, method and application remained disconnected in many ways. This book is designed to cross those boundaries and redress these concerns.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development. Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whethe