Visual and Motor Cognition in Infants and Children

This insightful book offers an accessible introduction to the development of visual abilities and motor skills in infants and children. Based on theory and cutting-edge up-to-date research about the development of non-verbal intelligence, it provides readers with essential knowledge about the foundations of typical and atypical development.

Christiane Lange-Küttner is a senior scientist who investigates spatial concepts and special needs of children. She currently works as Head of the BMBF reasearch project 'INSIDE - Inclusion in and after lower secondary tier in Germany' at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories in Bamberg and as associate faculty at the University of Bremen, Germany. She is adjunct associate professor at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Chris was a post-doc research fellow in the Cognitive Science Lab at the Department of Experimental Psychology of the Free University of Berlin. She then became faculty at the Psychology Departments of the University of Aberdeen and London Metropolitan University, UK, and worked as professor of Developmental Psychology at the Universities of Konstanz and Greifswald, Germany.

PART 1: Visual and Motor Cognition in Typically Developing Infants and Children 1. Historical Theories on Movement and Visual abilities in Children 2. Recent Theories on Movement and Visual abilities in Children 3. The A-not-B Task 4. Motor Development 5. Drawing and Writing Development 6. Visual Search in Children 7. Visual Memory Development in Children PART 2: Visual and Motor Skills in Children with Developmental Problems 8. Motor and Visual Abilities in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 9. Motor and Visual Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) 10. Motor and Visual Abilities in Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)