Categorization and Naming in Children

Ellen M. Markman

• Paperback | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markman challenges the fundamental assumptions of traditional theories of lan... Lees meer

Language Creation and Language Change

Michel Degraff

• Paperback | Engels | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammati... Lees meer

The Algebraic Mind

Gary F Marcus

• Paperback | Engels | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• In The Algebraic Mind , Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipu... Lees meer

The Organization of Learning

C. R. Gallistel

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• From insects to humans, Charles Gallistel explores the sophisticated computations performed in these ubiquitous but neglected domains of animal learni... Lees meer

Words, Thoughts, and Theories

Alison Gopnik, Andrew N Meltzoff

• Paperback | Engels | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young child... Lees meer

Race in the Making

Lawrence A. Hirschfeld

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• In this text the author argues that knowledge of race is not based on observation of physical difference, or develops in the same way as knowledge of ... Lees meer

An Odyssey in Learning and Perception

Eleanor J Gibson

• Paperback | Engels | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• An Odyssey in Learning and Perception documents a fifty-year intellectual expedition in the areas of learning and perception--always with an eye to co... Lees meer

Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development

Frank C Keil

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• In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Developmen t, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, addin... Lees meer

Systems That Learn

Sanjay (National University of Singapore) Jain, Daniel N. Osherson, James S. (Ctr For Sci And Tech) Royer, Arun (University of New South Wales) Sharma

• Hardcover | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• An introduction to the concepts and techniques of formal learning theory. The analysis developed in this book is based on a number-theoretical approac... Lees meer

Making Space

Nora S Newcombe, Janellen Huttenlocher

• Paperback | Engels | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the location... Lees meer

Language Creation and Language Change

• Hardcover | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical persp... Lees meer

Gavagai!

David Premack

• Paperback | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• In this witty and fascinating book, Premack examines arguments over whether humans are unique because we can talk. Lees meer

Conceptual Change in Childhood

Susan Carey

• Paperback | Engels | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter... Lees meer

Mindblindness

Simon Baron-Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• In Mindblindness , Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effo... Lees meer

Learnability and Cognition, new edition

Steven Pinker

• Paperback | Engels | Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
• A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs." Before Steven Pinker... Lees meer