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Author Mandler, Jean Matter.

Title The foundations of mind [electronic resource] : origins of conceptual thought / Jean Matter Mandler.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 359 p. : ill.
Series Oxford series in cognitive development
Oxford series in cognitive development.
Bibliography 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 -- Conceptual categories as induction machines -- Continuity in the conceptual system : acquisition, breakdown, and reorganization -- Recall of the past -- Language acquisition -- Consciousness and conclusions.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cognition in infants.
Concepts in infants.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0195172000 (alk. paper)

 
    
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