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RR 2003/56 Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development Edited by Usha Goswami Blackwell Oxford 2002 761 pp. ISBN 0 631 21840 8
L85
Handbooks of Developmental Psychology
Keywords Psychology, Children
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310461536
Though the structure of this book is similar to other volumes in the series, I welcome it with even greater enthusiasm than the rest. While they all summarise and review the latest scientific research in their particular area of child development, research in the field of infant cognition has, in the last few years, completely overturned all previous conceptions. This volume, therefore, not only summarises and updates the literature in its field, but also replaces much of it.
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