Educational Neuroscience

Denis Mareschal is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. He is co-author and co-editor of Neuroconstructivism: How the Brain Constructs Cognition and The Making of Human Concepts, and Joint Editor of Developmental Science. Andy Tolmie is Chair of Psychology and Human Development and Dean of the Doctoral School at the Institute of Education, Deputy Director of the London Centre for Educational Neuroscience, and Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology. Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, and founding chair of the London Centre for Education Neuroscience. He is the author of The Mathematical Brain (1999).

List of contributors ix Preface xi Foreword: Imaging the Future xii Michael I. Posner 1. Introduction 1 Brian Butterworth and Andy Tolmie 2. Neuroimaging Methods 13 Frederic Dick, Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Anna Blasi, Clare Elwell, and Debbie Mills 3. Computational Modeling of Learning and Teaching 46 Michael S. C. Thomas and Diana Laurillard 4. Genetics for Education 77 Yulia Kovas, Sergei Malykh, and Stephen A. Petrill 5. Research Methods in Educational Psychology 110 Andy Tolmie 6. Language Development 134 Victoria Knowland and Chris Donlan 7. Literacy Development 172 Liory Fern-Pollak and Jackie Masterson 8. Mathematical Development 201 Brian Butterworth and Sashank Varma 9. The Development and Application of Scientific Reasoning 237 Jonathan Fugelsang and Denis Mareschal 10. Social Development 268 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Kathrin Cohen Kadosh, Catherine L. Sebastian, Tobias Grossmann, and Mark H. Johnson 11. Emotional Development 297 Alice Jones 12. Attention and Executive Control 325 Michelle de Haan Afterword 349 John T. Bruer Index 364