The foundations of mind : origins of conceptual thought / Jean Matter Mandler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandler, Jean Matter.

Series:

Oxford series in cognitive development.

Oxford series in cognitive development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in infants.

Concepts in infants.

Physical Description:

xiii, 359 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The Foundations of Mind presents a new theory of cognitive development in infancy, focusing on the ways that perceptual information becomes transformed into conceptual thought. Mandler tackles issues such as how babies form concepts and begin to think before they have language, and how they can recall the past and make inductive inferences. Drawing on her extensive research, she illustrates how these processes form the conceptual basis for language and advanced thought, stressing the importance of distinguishing automatic perceptual processes from conceptualizations about what is perceived.

Contents:

How to build a baby : prologue

Piaget's sensorimotor infant

Kinds of representation : seeing and thinking

Perceptual meaning analysis and image-schemas : the infant as interpreter

Some image-schemas and their functions

Some differences between percepts and concepts : the case of the basic level

Some preverbal concepts

Conceptual categories as induction machines

Continuity in the conceptual system : acquisition, breakdown, and reorganization

Recall of the past

Language acquisition

Consciousness and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-341) and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-803839-9

1-280-42799-X

1-60256-493-0

9786610427994

OCLC:

59717432