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Thought without language

Title
Thought without language / edited by L. Weiskrantz.
Publication
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Weiskrantz, Lawrence.
  • Fyssen Foundation.
  • Fyssen Symposium (3rd : 1987 : Versailles, France)
Description
xvi, 533 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
Based on a Fyssen Foundation symposium in 1987, these essays question the dependancy of thought on language, and whether abstract reasoning and other faculties can exist in the absence of language.
Series Statement
  • Symposia of the Fyssen Foundation
  • Oxford science publications
Uniform Title
  • Oxford science publications
  • Fyssen Foundation symposium
Subject
  • Cognition > Congresses
  • Psycholinguistics > Congresses
  • Cerebral dominance > Congresses
  • Cognition
  • Cerebral dominance
  • Language and languages
  • Thought and thinking
  • Cognition
  • Dominance, Cerebral
  • Language
  • Thinking
  • cognition
  • language (general communication)
  • languages (study discipline)
  • thinking
  • Thought and thinking
  • Language and languages
  • Cerebral dominance
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Gehirn
  • Kognition
  • Kognitive Entwicklung
  • Neurolinguistik
  • Nichtverbale Kommunikation
  • Psycholinguistik
  • Rechte Hemisphäre
  • Vergleichende Psychologie
  • Kongress
  • Psycholinguistique > Congrès
  • Cognition > Congrès
  • Pensée > Congrès
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Report of the third Fyssen symposium held at the Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, France, April 3-7, 1987.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Contents
Machine derived contents note: PART A: Emergence and Instruction -- 1. The Origins of Referential Communication in Human Infancy, G. Butterworth and L. Grover -- 2. The Ontogenesis of Different Types of Thought Language and Motor Behaviors as Non-Specific Manifestations, P. Modnond -- 3. Minds With and Without Language, D. Premack -- PART B: Categorical Perception -- 4. Functional Organization of Visual Recognition, A.W. Young -- 5. Face Perception and the Right Hemisphere, J. Sergent -- 6. Stimulus Generalization and the Acquisition of Categories by Pigeons, J.M. Pearce -- PART C: The Ontogeny of Perceptual and Causal Knowledge -- 7. The Origins of Physical Knowledge, E.S. Spelke -- 8. The Necessity of Illusion: Perception and Thought in Infancy, A.L. Leslie -- 9. An Information-Processing Approach to Infant Cognitive Development, L.B. Cohen -- PART D: Implicit Processing and Intentionality -- 10. Access to Consciousness: Dissociation Between Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Neuropsychological Syndromes, D.L. Shacter, M.P. McAndrews, and M. Moscovitch -- 11. What Can the Bird Brain Tell us About Thought Without Language?, C. Horn -- 12. Intentionality in Animal Conditioning, A. Dickinson -- PART E: Shapes, Space, and Memory -- 13. Differences Between Adult and Infant Cognition: Is the Crucial Variable Presence or Absence of Language?, A. Diamond -- 14. Animal Spatial Cognition, C. Thinus-Blanc -- 15. Primate Cognition of Space and Shapes, B. Bresard -- PART F: Verbal/Non-Verbal Interaction and Independence -- 16. The Dynamics of Cerebral Specialization and Modular Interactions, M.S. Gazzaniga -- 17. Cognitive Function in Severe Aphasia, A Kertesz -- 18. Language Without Thought, E. Bisiach -- PART G: Dyslexia and a Mathematician's Experience -- 19. A Personal View of Dyslexia and of Thought Without Language, K.M. Jansons.
ISBN
  • 0198521804
  • 9780198521808
  • 0198521774
  • 9780198521778
LCCN
87028323
OCLC
  • ocm16923707
  • 16923707
  • SCSB-1198784
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library