This book offers compelling examples of how the study of atypical and typical cognitive development can inform and enrich each other. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Cognition and Development.

Vikram Jaswal is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, USA.

Nameera Akhtar is Professor of Psychology at University of California-Santa Cruz, USA.

Jacob A. Burack is Professor of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, Canada.

Introduction - Building Bridges: Cognitive Development in Typical and Atypical Populations 1. How I Attend-Not How Well Do I Attend: Rethinking Developmental Frameworks of Attention and Cognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typical Development 2. Considering Development in Developmental Disorders 3. Why We Should Study the Broader Autism Phenotype in Typically Developing Populations 4. Reading Development in Typically Developing Children and Children With Prenatal or Perinatal Brain Lesions: Differential School Year and Summer Growth 5. Constraints on Multiple Object Tracking in Williams Syndrome: How Atypical Development Can Inform Theories of Visual Processing 6. Beyond Discrete Categories: Studying Multiracial, Intersex, and Transgender Children Will Strengthen Basic Developmental Science Commentaries 7. Bridge Building and Other Possible Metaphors for Patching Over Discrepancies Between Typical and Atypical Development 8. Bridging the Gaps in the Study of Typical and Atypical Cognitive Development: A Commentary