Editor-in-Chief
Richard M. Lerner, PhD is Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science at the Eliot-Pearson Department at Tufts University. He is the author of many publications, including Pathways to Positive Development about Diverse Youth and New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, and Research (Jossey-Bass). Dr Lerner is also a past editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence and The Handbook of Life-Span Development (Wiley).

The essential reference for human development theory, updated and reconceptualized
The Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work to which all others are compared. First published in 1946, and now in its Seventh Edition, the Handbook has long been considered the definitive guide to the field of developmental science.
Volume 2: Cognitive Processes describes cognitive development as a relational phenomenon that can be studied only as part of a larger whole of the person and context relational system that sustains it. In this volume, specific domains of cognitive development are contextualized with respect to biological processes and sociocultural contexts. Furthermore, key themes and issues (e.g., the importance of symbolic systems and social understanding) are threaded across multiple chapters, although every each chapter is focused on a different domain within cognitive development. Thus, both within and across chapters, the complexity and interconnectivity of cognitive development are well illuminated.
* Learn about the inextricable intertwining of perceptual development, motor development, emotional development, and brain development
* Understand the complexity of cognitive development without misleading simplification, reducing cognitive development to its biological substrates, or viewing it as a passive socialization process
* Discover how each portion of the developmental process contributes to subsequent cognitive development
* Examine the multiple processes - such as categorizing, reasoning, thinking, decision making and judgment - that comprise cognition
The scholarship within this volume and, as well, across the four volumes of this edition, illustrate that developmental science is in the midst of a very exciting period. There is a paradigm shift that involves increasingly greater understanding of how to describe, explain, and optimize the course of human life for diverse individuals living within diverse contexts. This Handbook is the definitive reference for educators, policy-makers, researchers, students, and practitioners in human development, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and neuroscience.

1. Reflections on Cognitive Development
Lynn S. Liben and Ulrich Müller
2. The Brain and Cognitive Development
Joan Stiles, Timothy T. Brown, Frank Haist, and Terry L. Jernigan
3 Perceptual Development
Scott P. Johnson and Erin E. Hannon
4. Motor Development
Karen E. Adolph and Scott R. Robinson
5. Attentional Development
Jelena Ristic and James T. Enns
6. Memory Development
Mark L. Howe
7. Development of Symbolic Representation
Tara Callaghan and John Corbit
8. Language Development
Brian MacWhinney
9. Gesture and Cognitive Development
Susan Goldin-Meadow
10. Development of Social Understanding
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis
11. Development of Play
Angeline S. Lillard
12. Conceptual Development
Vladimir Sloutsky
13. Development of Reasoning
Robert B. Ricco
14. Development of Executive Function
Ulrich Müller and Kimberly Kerns
15. Development of Temporal Cognition
Teresa McCormack
16. Development of Scientific Thinking
Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble
17. Development of Mathematical Reasoning
Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant
18. Literacy Development
Christopher J. Lonigan
19. Gender Development and Social Cognition
Campbell Leaper
20. Cognitive Development and Culture
Mary Gauvain and Susan Perez
21. Artistic Development
Connie Milbrath, Gary McPherson, and Margaret Osborne
22. Media and Cognitive Development
Daniel R. Anderson and Heather L. Kirkorian
23. Atypical Cognitive Development
Bruce Pennington