Title: The making of human concepts /
Authors: Mareschal, Denis; Quinn, Paul C.; Lea, S. E. G., 1946-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Concepts; Cognition; Thought and thinking; Concept Formation; Cognition; Thinking
Abstract: "This book tackles the age-old puzzle of what might be unique about human concepts. Intuitively, we have a sense that our thoughts are somehow different from those of animals and young children such as infants. Yet, if true, this raises the question of where and how this uniqueness arises. What are the factors that have played out during the life course of the individual and over the evolution of humans that have contributed to the emergence of this apparently unique ability? This volume brings together a collection of world specialists who have grappled with these questions from different perspectives to try to resolve the issue. It includes contributions from leading psychologists, neuroscientists, child and infant specialists, and animal cognition specialists. Taken together, this story leads to the idea that there is no unique ingredient in the emergence of human concepts, but rather a powerful and potentially unique mix of biological abilities and personal and social history that has led to where the human mind now stands."--Jacket.
Contents: Where do concepts come from? / Denis Mareschal, Paul C. Quinn, and Stephen E.G. Lea -- What are categories and concepts? / Gregory Murphy -- Rules and similarity in adult concept learning / James Close [and others] -- Mechanistic models of associative and rule-based category learning / Bradley C. Love and Marc Tomlinson -- The neurobiology of categorization / F. Gregory Ashby and Matthew J. Crossley -- Different kinds of concepts and different kinds of words: what words do for human cognition / Sandra R. Waxman and Susan A. Gelman -- Concepts and culture / Norbert Ross and Michael Tidwell -- Category learning and concept learning in birds / Olga F. Lazareva and Edward A. Wasserman -- Concept learning in nonprimate mammals: in search of evidence / Stephen E.G. Lea -- Concepts in monkeys / Michèle Fabre-Thorpe -- Cognitive development in chimpanzees: a trade-off between memory and abstraction? / Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- Categorization and concept formation in human infants / Barbara A. Younger -- The making of an abstract concept: natural number / Susan Carey -- Concepts in human adults / James A. Hampton -- Darwin and development: why ontogeny does not recapitualte phylogeny for human concepts / Frank C. Keil and George E. Newman -- More than concepts: how multiple integrations make human intelligence / Linda B. Smith -- The evolution of concepts: a timely look / Michael C. Corballis and Thomas Suddendorf -- The making of human concepts / Denis Mareschal, Paul C. Quinn and Stephen E.G. Lea.