Visual and Motor Cognition in Infants and Children: What Develops and What Stays the Same

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Visual and Motor Cognition in Typically Developing Infants and Children
	Chapter 1 Historical Theories on Movement and Visual Abilities in Children
		1.1 Stage and Field Theory
		1.2 Subjective and Objective Groupings in the Spatial Field
		1.3 The Field as a Psychological Construct
	Chapter 2 Recent Theories on Movement and Visual Abilities in Children
		2.1 Neo-Piagetian Theory
		2.2 Dynamic Systems Theory and Embodied Cognition
		2.3 Developmental Neural Networks
		2.4 Conclusions
	Chapter 3 The A-not-B Task
		3.1 Infants Make Curious Mistakes
		3.2 Object Conservation: The A-Error
		3.3 Spatial Perseveration: The A-not-B Error
		3.4 The Occipital Factor: Spatial Coding in the A-not-B Task
		3.5 Learning in the A-not-B Task
		3.6 Motor Development and the A-not-B Error
		3.7 Conclusions
	Chapter 4 Motor Development
		4.1 Motor Development
		4.2 Spatial Constraints on Motor Development
		4.3 Spatial Affordances and End-State Comfort
		4.4 Spatial Objects and Fields in Sports Games
		4.5 Conclusions
	Chapter 5 Drawing and Writing Development
		5.1 Components of Drawing
		5.2 Stages of Realism
		5.3 The Construction of Pictorial Space
		5.4 The Holistic Object
		5.5 Fine Motor Skills in Drawing and Handwriting
		5.6 Drawing, Flexibility and Creativity
		5.7 Conclusions
	Chapter 6 Visual Search in Children
		6.1 Development of Visual Attention
		6.2 Principles of Visual Search
		6.3 The Development of Visual Search
		6.4 Learning in Visual Search
		6.5 Applied Visual Search
		6.6 Conclusions
	Chapter 7 Visual Memory Development in Children
		7.1 Object and Place Memory
		7.2 Concepts and Hebbian Learning in Object and Place Memory
		7.3 Scene Memory
		7.4 Conclusions
Part II Visual and Motor Skills in Children with Developmental Problems
	Chapter 8 Motor and Visual Abilities in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
		8.1 Cognitive Functions in Children with ADHD
		8.2 Fine and Gross Motor Skills in ADHD
		8.3 Spatial Categories in Children with ADHD
		8.4 Conclusions
	Chapter 9 Motor and Visual Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
		9.1 Cognitive Functions in Children with ASD
		9.2 Development of Spatial and Motor Abilities in ASD
		9.3 Spatial Categories in Children with ASD
		9.4 Mapping vs. Stages: Early Visual Realism in Children with ASD
		9.5 Conclusions
	Chapter 10 Motor and Visual Abilities in Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)
		10.1 Diagnosis of Children with DCD
		10.2 Fine and Gross Motor Skills in Children with DCD
		10.3 Motor Learning in Children with DCD
		10.4 Conclusions
Index