Contents Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. Cognitive science, development, and psychopathology: Typical and atypical trajectories of attention James T. Enns and Jacob A. Burack Section I. Atypical Environments, Threat, and the Development of Individual Differences in Attention Chapter 2. Linking early adversity, brain, and developmental psychopathology: A review of findings from survivors of extremely low birth weight and child maltreatment Vladimir Miskovic and Louis A. Schmidt Chapter 3. Cognitive bias modification: The effects of training paradigms Jenna N.

Goldstein Suway and Nathan A. Fox Chapter 4. Attention and the development of anxiety disorders: The importance of disentangling reactive versus regulatory components of attention Patricia L. Jordan and J. Bruce Morton Section II. The Organization of the Development of Attention in Typical and Atypical Processing Chapter 5 Ontogenesis and microgenesis of visual perceptual organization Ruth Kimch Chapter 6 Deficient anchoring - a potential link between perceptual and cognitive difficulties among individuals with dyslexia Karen Banai and Merav Ahissar Chapter 7 Autism: Beyond Weak Central Coherence Elizabeth Pellicano Section III. The Case of Orienting Attention in Developing an Integrated Science Chapter 8 Core components of flexibly attending: Summary and synthesis of reflexive orienting in autism Jed T. Ellison and J.

Steven Reznick Chapter 9 Orienting attention to social cues typical and atypical development Adrienne Rombough, Jennifer N. Barrie, and Grace Iarocci Chapter 10 Investigating social attention: A case for increasing stimulus complexity in the laboratory Elina Birmingham, Jelena Ristic, and Alan Kingstone Chapter 11 Neurodevelopmental mechanisms in childhood psychopathology: The example of abnormal social orienting in autism Noah J. Sasson, Lauren Turner Brown, and Joseph Piven.