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A Dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action

Title
A Dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action / Esther Thelen and Linda B. Smith.
Author
Thelen, Esther.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1994.

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Smith, Linda B.
Description
xxiii, 376 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
Series Statement
MIT Press/Bradford Book series in cognitive psychology
Uniform Title
MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology.
Subject
  • Cognition in infants
  • Perceptual-motor processes
  • Motor ability in infants
  • Developmental psychobiology
Note
  • "A Bradford book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-361) and index.
Contents
Pt. I. The Nature of Development: A Dynamic Approach. Ch. 1. Lessons from Learning to Walk. Ch. 2. The Crisis in Cognitive Development. Ch. 3. Dynamic Systems: Exploring Paradigms for Change. Ch. 4. Dynamic Principles of Development: Reinterpreting Learning to Walk -- Pt. II. Seeking Mechanisms of Change. Ch. 5. Dynamics of Neural Organization and Development. Ch. 6. Categories and Dynamic Knowledge. Ch. 7. The Dynamics of Selection in Human Infants -- Pt. III. Dynamics and the Origins of Knowledge. Ch. 8. The Context-Specific Origin of Knowledge. Ch. 9. Knowledge from Action: Exploration and Selection in Learning to Reach. Ch. 10. Real Time, Developmental Time, and Knowing: Explaining the A-Not-B Error. Ch. 11. Hard Problems: Toward a Dynamic Cognition.
ISBN
0262200953
LCCN
93006037
OCLC
ocm28665438
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries