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Dean D'Souza is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. His research examines exploration as an adaptive process in early development, investigating how infants regulate information-seeking in complex environments through naturalistic and experimental approaches combined with computational modelling.

Usha Goswami CBE FRS FBA is Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is a world-renowned authority in childhood development and has received many international honours, including the Yidan Prize for Education Research (2019) and Fellowships of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).

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Acknowledgement Foreword Chapter 1: Explaining development Chapter 2: Windows onto development Chapter 3: Infancy: the physical world 1 Chapter 4: Infancy: the physical world 2 Chapter 5: Infancy: the psychological world 1 Chapter 6: Social cognition, mental representation and theory of mind: the psychological world 2 Chapter 7: Conceptual development and the biological world Chapter 8: Language acquisition Chapter 9: Causal reasoning and the human brain Chapter 10: The development of memory Chapter 11: Metacognition, reasoning and executive function Chapter 12: Reading and mathematical development Chapter 13: Final reflections Index