Biology and Cognitive Development

Mark Johnson obtained his degree in Psychology from Edinburgh University and his PhD from the Zoology Department at Cambridge Development Unit, before recently taking up an appointment as Associate Professo of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.John Morton came to London in 1985 to head the new MRC Cognitive DEvelopment Unit. In addition to his work on infant face recognition, he also works on child witnesses and reading acquisition. He is also a regular contributor to All in the Mind on Radio 4.

• Preface viiAcknowledgements ix1 Why bring Biology into Cognitive Development? 12 The Development of Face Recognition 233 Bringing in Biology 384 Conspec, Conlern and the Development of Face Recognition 815 Conspec and Conlern in the Human Infant 1046 Biology, Cognition and Faces 129Notes 148References 159Index 175

"Johnson and Morton have written a fascinating and important book. They have integrated findings from ethology, neuroscience, and experimental studies of human infants into a bold account of the early development of face perception. The implications of this landmark work go way beyond the story of the origins of face perception, per se. This book should become the standard work of an emerging new field of scientific endeavour - developmental cognitive neuroscience." Professor Susan Carey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology