Cognitive Development and Working Memory: A Dialogue Between NeoPiagetian Theories and Cognitive Approaches

Most agree that Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) provided the most vivid picture of the how the limitations of the young child's thinking transform into the capacity of adolescents and adults to grasp complexity and abstract and hypothetical matters. Cognitive development has moved beyond many of his ideas however, and European and North American psychologists here explore alternative theories that revolve around the concept of working memory. Among the topics are a developmental theory of mental attention and its application to measurement and task analysis, distinguishing storage from processing in the development of working memory, and the influence of working memory growth on reading and math performances in children with disabilities in those fields. Psychology Press in an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)