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The foundations of mind : origins of conceptual thought

Title
The foundations of mind : origins of conceptual thought / Jean Matter Mandler.
Author
Mandler, Jean Matter
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Description
xiii, 359 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Oxford series in cognitive development
Uniform Title
Oxford series in cognitive development.
Subject
  • Cognition in infants
  • Concepts in infants
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-341) and indexes.
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 -- Concepts as induction machines -- Continuity in the conceptual system : acquisition, breakdown, and reorganization -- Recall of the past -- Language acquisition -- Consciousness and conclusions.
ISBN
0195172000 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003017304
OCLC
  • ocm52846685
  • SCSB-5049445
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries