The Foundations of Mind: Origins of Conceptual Thought
Mandler, Jean MatterAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2004.
This title offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This title offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Cognition in infants
Developmental psychology
Social Sciences
Psychology