The working mind : meaning and mental attention in human development / Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice M. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascual-Leone, Juan, author.

Johnson, Janice M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental psychology.

Cognition.

Task analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"A magnum opus from one of Piaget's most important students. This books seeks to synthesize Piaget's psychology with findings in modern neuroscience to explain cognitive development"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Foundations of a Causal Constructivist Theory: Semiotic Processes

1 Dialectical Constructivism: The Working Mind Underlying Working Memory p. 3

2 Problems of Cognitive Developmental Theory p. 33

3 Emergence of Mental Attention in Infancy: From Sensorimotor to Symbolic Processing p. 61

4 Meaning, Mental Attention, and the Symbolic Function p. 119

II Theory of Constructive Operators (TCO)

5 Schemes/Schemas and Their Causal Constructivist Learning p. 141

6 Automatic Attention: Effortless, Perceptual, and Personal p. 181

7 Mental Attention, Intelligence, and Consciousness p. 205

III TCO, Task Analysis, and Neuroscience

8 Process Analysis and Mental Task Analysis: Foundations p. 257

9 Process and Mental Task Analysis: Methods and Examples p. 289

10 The Working Mind Inside a Working Brain: A Neuropsychological Introduction p. 317

11 The Working Mind Inside a Working Brain: Functional Dimensions in Brain Semiotics p. 359

12 The Working Mind Model across Human Domains p. 397.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0262363089

9780262363082

OCLC:

1202266629

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access